SAWMILL ACCIDENT
,MAN FAtALLY INJURED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 6.
Severe bodily injuries which proved fatal this evening were received on Monday afternoon by, Ernest Hay ward Morris^aged 50, sawmiller, of Oxford. Some wood which' he was, cutting with a power saw flew up. A part broke Mr. Morris's. ribs, which penetrated a lung, and another part broke-the chest bone and penetrated the windpipe. ; .'A' specialist was called from Chr-ist-chufeh and though the lung injury was remedied, the windpipe injury proved fatal.. ' . , ■ '-
Mr. Morris was the proprietor of the mill .where the accident occurred.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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