ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED. Drugging; operations at the Greymonth wharf have tailed to locate Hie body of the boy Charles Swcctnnui, who is believed to have fallen into the river while whitebait fishing. The missing hoy’s whitebait net was found under the wharf. STRUCK BY LIFT. George Shepherd, a carpenter, aged thirty-one, of 22 Chamberlain street, Kiirori. died in the public hospital, Wellington, yesterday afternoon from a fractured .skull, received as a result of being knocked down a lift well during building operations in the T. and G. building,, at the. corner of Grey street and Lambton' quay, about 11.40 a.in. It appears that the deceased was leaning over the lift well on the third lloor sawing a piece of timber, when the lift descended, suddenly and knocked him down,, the well. Shepherd,'.who was a. married man, was immediately rushed off to the hospital in Hie free ambulance, but succumbed at 3.30 p.m. without regaining consciousness.
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Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 10
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159ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 10
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