MAN’S TRAGIC DEATH
Asphyxiated in Street
REPAIRS TO GAS MAIN i
By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, May 5.
Death came with tragic suddenness' to Walter Henry Morrow, thirty-six years of age, married, with one child, while working on a gas main in the main street near the centre of the town to-' Morrow, who was an experienced worker in the employ of the. Gisborne Gas Company, was engaged in repairing a main which it is believed was broken by the earthquake. Deceased was working in a hole two feet deep by four feet long and three feet wide. A few minutes after speaking) to some friends he was found in a stateof collapse in the hole, from which gas was escaping freely. Attempts at resuscitation failed. Morrow was a returned soldier who had served, on Gallipoli.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 187, 6 May 1931, Page 11
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