ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Fatal injuries were sustained by Leslie Gordon, aged 38, of Mercer, a skipper employed by the Roose Shipping Coy., while loading logs on to a barge on the Waikato river half-way between Hamilton and Cambridge yest’brday. A winch chain snapped, inflicting a crushing blow. Gordon was taken to Hamilton by boat but expired on arrival. He leaves a wife and ten children, Stewart Ikin, a schoolboy, aged 15, received fatal injuries yesterday as the result of a fall from a bicycle. The boy, while riding down York Place, Dunedin, collided with a little girl and died on the way to hospital. The girl also was seriously injured. \ While working with a circular saw at his residence in Marton yesterday afternoon, Gilbert Sidney Hutchinson, aged 45, married, was struck on the throat by a piece of wood and succumbed while being conveyed to a private hospital. Deceased had been employed by the gas department for the past 21 years.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 270, 29 October 1932, Page 7
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