ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
KILLED IN BLAST. James Bourke, aged about sixty, contractor for the Mabel’s Bay section of I the Westport-Greymouth coast road, was killed about 4.15 o’clock yesterday afternoon by a fall of stone due to blasting operations in connection with the contract. The deceased, who resided at Barry town, was -well known throughout the West Coast. A single man, E. Sudden, aged twenty-one years, and employed as a waterside worker on board the s.s. i Arawa at Port Chalmers, was admitted to the hospital at 11 a.m. to-day suffering from a badly crushed left foot. The injury was sustained through a ) beam falling on him while he was work- ' ing in tfcehoJd pf the yesseL
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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 5
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117ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 5
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