ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) When collecting firewood a little girl named Agnes Brown, of Grovetown Marlborough, climbed a willow tree to break off dead branches. She fell from a considerable height and struck a pro jecting branch, which* inflicted a large wound in the abdomen. Tho child was alone at the time, but her screams attracted attention and she was hurried to a private hospital, where she underwent an operation and is progressing satisfactorily.
A returned soldier named Arthur Conway, aged about 30, married, with one child, was cutting the limbs of a large tree at Picton when a falling branch carried away the ladder on which he was standing. Conway fell, dislocated his neck and died in hos pital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 197, 29 July 1924, Page 5
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