CASUALTIES.
*— "j (PBESS. ASSOCIATION TEUSOJUX.y AUCKLAND, December 26. While showing a party round th« Hora Hora hydro-oLoctrio works oil Christmas Eve, John Foldt, a single man, agod forty-five, fell into the headrace and was drowned before the eyes of his friends. He was walking across a balk of timber, and as he turned to £ive instructions to those following him ho dropped sixteen feet into tho swirling water and was not seen again. A. carpenter by trade, Fcldfc came from Mangahao some months ago. Ho was a native of Denmark, and had no relatives in New Zealand* WANGANUI. December 26.
William Forsyth, a farmer at Or# Oro, was killed yesterday near Raetihi. His car capsized over a bulk. Th* other occupants escaped uninjured. A number of minor accidents were reported over the kolidav, the jnoat serious being: that of Thomas Dwycr, Fordell, who was found on tho railway line betweon Okoia and Fordell o# Christmas Evo n-ith a fractured skull.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 13
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