TWO WORKMEN KILLED

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 6

TWO WORKMEN KILLED

Sudden Fall of Masonry FOUR IN HOSPITAL A STRONG ROOM COLLAPSES DEMOLITION OF BUILDING (Per Press Association). Wellington, March 22. Two workmen wore killed and three others wore injured when a part of the old Government Life Insurance Building in Wellington now in the process of demolition, collapsed this afternoon. Several toci s of debris had io be shifted, in the course of which a man was injured by a' falling brick before the "body of a. young man, which had been buried for mere than throe hours was recovered. THE DEAD Harry By ford, single. Richard Wilson, single 19, of Melrose. THE INJURED Lt)-nard Lanbf, tmprvied 39, A'-' Bropklyn fractured elbow and shock. Jamcg Summers, single 28, of Mira mar head injuries and shock. Alexander Donald, single, 38, of Abel Smith Street ; bruises and shock. Lewi s Ham* 36, of Miramar hip injuries and shock. The injured' who were taken to the hospital, , a re not in a serious state.