BUSHFELLERS KILLED
Two Lives Lost in North FAILED TO GET CLEAR Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 12. Two bushfelling fatalities have occurred in the Far,North. Mr, Teri Pirikito Bristowe, a married man, aged 40, was engaged, together with 19 others, on a bushfelling contract at Orakau, when he was struck on the forehead by a small limb of a falling tree. He received a fracture of the skull and died within half an hour without regaining consciousness. , ’ Mr. David Apiata, a married man, aged 24, of Oromahoe, was engaged with another man in felling an isolated tree at Walmate North. He called out to his companion to get clear, but he himself was struck by the falling tree and received a fracture of the skull, and he died later. His companion got clear. The district coroner at Kaikohe, Mr. T. Guerin, conducted inquests, and a verdict of accidental death was returned in each instance. Both men were experienced bushmen, and all possible precautions were taken in the felling operations.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 273, 13 August 1932, Page 12
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