WORKMAN KILLED BY FALLING BRICKS
(New Zealand Press Association) WHANGAREI, June 11. One man was killed and another i seriously injured by falling masonry ; in a building in Whangarei this morning. The man killed was George Clarence Goodhue, a carpenter, of Sherwood rise. The injured man is Mr Bertram West, aged 38, a painter, married, of Park avenue. The men were caught under a large . block of cemented bricks which fell from about 14ft in the former Australia and New Zealand Bank premises ' shortlv after 8.30 a.m. Supports under the block collapsed without warning. Other men were at work on the ground floor and they were able to prise the block away immediately, but Mr Goodhue was dead. Mr West was pinned round the middle of the body.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27992, 12 June 1956, Page 9
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