WELL-KNOWN CONTRACTOR KILLED.
(rKESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) "WELINGTON, January 16. Mr Henry Gray, of the contracting firm of McLean and Gray, who are now building the new Club Hotel, on Lambton quay, died last evening, as the result of an accident that happened on the job just before noon. "While Mr Gray was standing on the ground a small pinch bar fell from the third floor, a distance of about forty feet, and struck him on the Jop of the head, penetrating about three inches. An operation was performed, but lie sank and died. He was a native of the Orkney Islands, about forty years of age, and leaves a widow and three young children. The firm in the last fourteen years have carried out a number of important works, having built the Union Steam Ship Company's workshops at Evans Bay. the out-patients' building at Wellington Hospital, and seven drill halls for the Defence department in various parts of the Dominion.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15489, 17 January 1916, Page 10
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