KILLED BY EARTH FALL
New Plymouth Worker By Telegraph.—Press Association. New Plymouth, October 31. A simple accident attended by fatal results occurred when formation work, on Carrington Road was beiiig carried out at about 9 o'clock this morning, when an old resident of New Plymouth, Thomas Molloy, was killed by a fall .of earth. The deceased was a member of a party of four working under a cooperative contract scheme and engaged ,in cutting back a bank, nine feet high. Molloy undermined the bank a couple of feet preparatory to levering the earth down. The first ititimatlon his mates had of an accident was a thud land a groan. They then saw Molloy’s legs protruding from a fall of earth. On Molloy being uncovered it was found that he was dead. His ribs on the left side had been crushed and his left thigh broken. The deceased leaves a widow and an adult family ot three.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 11
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