ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
COLLAPSE IN HOLD. While working in the hold of the Northern Shipping Company’s Otimai at Whakatane, Alden Stewart, a halfcaste waterside worker, aged 84 years, collapsed and died in a few minute* after replacing another man who round the heat too trying. The deceased was a former Bay of Plenty Rugby representative. He is survived by a widow and three children. man electrocuted. A Taihape Association message states that Donald Keith Derbidge i <26) was electrocuted this morning while engaged on construction work on the electric power line of Taihape Borough. Derbidge and another man were on the top of - a pole, when deceased s head came in contact with a high tension wire. He fell to the ground. Resuscitation was tried for over an hour without avail by the borough electrical staff and at the'hospital. Deceased was prominent in Rugby circles, being a member of the Taihape Pirate Club.
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Evening Star, Issue 22895, 1 March 1938, Page 8
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