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CRUSHED BY TREE FELLING ACCIDENT fT<ir Press Association.) TIMARU, this day. Master Charles Spillane, aged 15, was fatally Injured when helping to fell a willow tree at Temuka yesterday. ■ A limb that he and a companion were chopping Split and slipped downward, inflicting a deep gash in the yputh’s throat. It then swung across .his chest and crushed him against the ''fork; of the tree. He was removed ;td. the Timaru Hospital, where he died soon after admission.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 2
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