CASUALTIES.
A fatal accident occurred at Maitai Valley (Nelson) last evening. John Packer, an elderly man, with his son Howard and another youth, was,getting totara piles out of a rough gully, and when carting the piles the dray overturned while crossing a creek, and John Packer was crushed to death beneath the draw. His son and the other youth were atternDthm to extricate
deceased, when" Howard was kicked by one of the horses in the head and side, and badly hurt. Packer leaves a widow and a numerous family. .
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Evening Star, Issue 11657, 18 September 1901, Page 8
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