NEED FOR TELEPHONES
Danger of Accident in Public
Works Camps
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wairoa, June 8.
An opinion that all Public Works camps where large numbers of men were employed should be equipped with telephones so that medical aid could be summoned with the least possible delay in the event of an accident was expressed by Mr. V. E. Winter, district coroner, at an inquest into the death of John Henrv Nicholson, a single man, between 50 and 60 years of age, who was swept oil a ledge on which he was working b.v a fall of rock at Hopuruahine Waikaremoana, on Friday last and killed. The nearest telephone was 20 miles from I lie cam]), and Nicholson, who was frightfully injured about the head as a result of his fall, was dead long before a doctor arrived.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 16
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138NEED FOR TELEPHONES Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 216, 9 June 1936, Page 16
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