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TIMBER MILL FATALITY,
A fatal accident occurred yesterday at the Pongakawa timber mill, owned by R. H. Phelan. His son, Richard John, aged twenty-five, was greasing a truck trailer, and had jacked up a wheel. His father, one hundred and fifty yards away, heard an explosion like a gunshot, and ran out and cl is-/ covered his son lying dazed on the’ ground, with injuries to his left side and head. Doctor Randall, of Te Puke, was summoned, and ordered his removal to Tauranga Hospital, where he was admitted at 5 o’clock. Doctor Macdiarmid operated and removed a large clot of blood from the brain, but haemorrhage at the base of the skull, due to a torn blood vessel, caused his death at 2 this morning. The actual cause of the accident is unknown, but at .the inquest the evidence indicated that the tyre blew' out, and a piece of rubber struck deceased on the head. Deceased was a well-known tennis and golf player, and a Tauranga representative footballer.—Tauranga message.
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Evening Star, Issue 21007, 22 January 1932, Page 12
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