CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
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WAIMATE, This Day. There was a, chapter of accidents at Waimate, one being fatal. Joseph Sturgess, a single mau, aged about 34 years, with another man, was felling bluegums at E. 11. Kingsbury's farm, Willowbridge, yesterday afternoon. As a tree fell it broke a branch from another tree, and the branch struck Sturgess on the head. He died five minutes later.
♦William Paull, a farmhand at Eedchff, was kicked by a horse last evenj"B' ,t8 collarbone being broken. Andrew Weir, while cutting trees at Wainono this morning, cut his foot wth an axe. He was taken to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 8
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104CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 8
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