MARRIED MAN KILLED
FELLING OF A WATTLE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, March 26.
Struck by a tree which he was helping to fell on the property of Mr. F. Parry, Papanui, Keith Ward, a married man with two children, of 28 Wilmer Street, was killed almost instantly.
Mr. Ward and his brother, David Alexander Ward, \ ith two other young men, were felling an old wattle. Keith Ward was sawing and the others guiding the tree by pulling a rope to prevent it from falling on the house on the property.
As the tree fell Keith Ward began to run in the same direction and the trunk fell across • im.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 72, 27 March 1939, Page 5
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