FALL THROUGH A SKYLIGHT
(By Telegraph—Special . Correspondent.) ■ >Auckland, January 18. : • A lady^.who fras'walking >,up .Queen; Striet this morning, received- a- 'shock' - when' passing ' the corner .of vDurham . Street; by; :seeing' a man ooiiio hurtling through a skyiight, and fall to tko footpath neav;r. thud,;just grazing. the. . perambulator ,which;'s)lo'.Was .Wheeling, v It subsequently appeared that Mr. George . ; Walker, auctioneer,who;; has \ offices'; up-, , slairs, had gone out on to the roof of the verandah, to., shift a signboard,' and ; had : inadvertently, stepped on; to ■: tho, 1 glass: of , the Skylight/ ana. fallen thtoU^li... .There were a' good. many,.p€opli: .the, time, and the crash of glass and tho falling form wwncausefl a crowd to collect. Mr. Walker, although ho made 1 light /of ' the : mishap,: was •: found to' be, ■ pretty badly .injured, and," after' being at-. , tended toVbv ■I)rs; : Girdler and P.; Moir, . was removed to liis home. ~
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 5
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