POISONED BY SEVER GAS
Plumber’s Death When Inspecting Sump (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 9. Poisonous fumes from sewer gas caused the death today at the Paekakarikl railway yards of Mr N. McLennan, a plumber, of Wellington road, Paekakarikl. It is believed he had lifted the lid of a sump he was going to inspect, and was immediately overcome by escaping gas. An ambulance from Wellington quickly arrived and officers unsuccessfully applied artificial respiration.
MAN DIES FROM INJURIES
(New Zealano Press Association) GREYMOO TH, January 9. Severely injured when a motorcar left the road at Mai Mai on the Greymouth-Reefton highway yesterday, a man died in the Inangahua hospital at Reefton tonight. He was: Norman Walker Jones, married, aged 65, of Greymouth, secretary of the Grey Hospital Board. His wife. Mrs Rosamond Jessie Jones, and her two sisters, who were injured in the same accident, are still patients in the Inangahua hospital
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 10
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