MEMBER FALLS DEAD IN PARLIAMENT
Collapse While Speaking
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NEW SOUTH WALES By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, July 22. There was a tragic scene in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly late last night when Mr. W. F. Foster, the U.A.P. member for Vaucluse, collapsed and fell unconscious across the table as he was delivering an address. As he then fell to the floor members rushed to assist him. Two members, Dr, J. E Webb and Dr. C. C. Fleck, tried, with the use of a restorative and by other means, to revive Mr. Foster, but their efforts failed. Mr. Foster was dead. Dr Fleck, in a medical report to the Government, said that death was due to angina pectoris. Mr. Foster, who was sixty-nine years of age, had been visibly in bad health during the session. Before he begun his speech Mr. Foster asked for a stimulant, saying that he was suffering great pain but deemed it his duty to speak on the subject (the treatment of feeder bus services) so long as his strength permitted. Mr. Foster worked himself up into a state of considerable excitement during his speech, and had just finished apologising to a member whom he thought he had offended when he collapsed.
The House adjourned until next Tuesday.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 254, 23 July 1936, Page 9
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