FATAL COLLAPSES
DEATH AT SALEYARDS. ■ , . ■ . ■ Z’,,: [PER press' HASTINGS, February"2l. ' -■Forlhe second-‘time within 24 hours, a person has collapsed and died suddenly in a public .place in Hastings. This morning;-Harry • Jones, aged about 55, collapsed on the rails at the Stortford Lodge i Saleyards;- and died within a few minutes. It is understood. ..he' had: ’b'geh'. inTill-hhalth -for some time. He was well known in stock farming and turf circles-. He was-a- keen-trotting • enthusiast; "and owned and raced hbrses.--'-He vived by hisc'wife. DaYid Jones/who represented various- Canterbury-'elec-torates in Parliament between 1919 and 1931, is a -brother. -; Collapsing outside the Post'.' 1 Office yesterday morrting, Mrs ‘■ Marian Wi Ighton, aged" 58,-.; died - Withifi-. a few minutes. -She recently returned ’to’ the Dominion f?om a visit to Australia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1940, Page 2
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