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ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Mark Ryan, the well-known horseman, was thrown at Ellerslio this morning, and had three ribs broken. —Auckland P.A. wire. A Woodville P.A. wire states that a young married man named Percy Buxlace, employed by Mr Rapley, carrier, fell off a horse-waggon to-day. The wheels went over his body, and he was so badly injured that the doctor ordered linn to be taken to tho Pahiatua Hospital. J. A. Knowles, a young man, employed in Dalgety's stock department, was thrown' out of a trap at noon to-day near Saltwater Creek, and killed.—Timaru P.A. wire. Mr George Thomas Smyth, a well-known resident of Invercargill, and manager of the Southland Bread Company, was accidentally killed at 9.30 to-day. Deceased had been stock-taking, and whilst he was in the engine room the men employed in tho bakehouse noticed that the machinery, which is driven by a gas engine, was slowing up. On going into the engine loom they found deceased lying on the floor. It appeared that he had been struck by the fly-wheel, and apparently had slipped and fell with his head through the fly-wheel. He was quite dead. Deceased was a prominent Freemason, and was at one time Provincial Grand Master and Grand Superintendent of the Southland Grand Lodge. He leaves a widow and four of a family, tho youngest being three years of age.

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Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 4

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ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 4

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 4

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