FALL OF SIXTY FEET

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 7

FALL OF SIXTY FEET

LAND AGENT KILLED WELL KNOWN CITY MAN (Per Presß Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Falling COft. down a light well from the fourth floor of Endean’s 'building, Queen street, yesterday, ji well-known city businessmen was killed instantaneously. He was Mr. John Norman Lowther Edson, aged 49, land and estate agent, married, and residing at Rcmuera. A mark on the railing, 3ft. Bin, high, on the fourth floor of the building is believed to indicate the point from which the fall began. It is understood that Mr. Edson walked to the fourth floor, but none of the business offices on the floor was visited. There were no witnesses to the fatality. For many years Mr: Edson was on the Auckland staff of the South British Insurance Company and resigned from the position of inspector in 1936 to take the office of manager of the F.A.M.E. Insurance Company, Limited, Auckland. Resigning from the F.A.M.E. company at the end of last August, Mr. Edson took control of the newly-formed firm of Messrs. Edson and, Francis, Limited, land and estate agents. He retained an interest in the F.A.M.E. company by holding the chief agency through the estate firm.