BURIED IN EARTH FALL
NEW PLYMOUTH FATALITY
-r (By'Telegraph.—Press Association.) . "NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. A simple accident attended by fatal * 'results occurred when formation : woik on Carrington Koad was being 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 wag 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 intimation his = mates had of an accident was a thud ":and 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 of three.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 11
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154BURIED IN EARTH FALL Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 11
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