WELL-KNOWN HOTELKEEPER KILLED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 5

WELL-KNOWN HOTELKEEPER KILLED.

WELLINGTON, May 23. Mr G. Pinnock, a well-known Wellington hotelkeeper, was killed on Saturday in a. lift accident at the Columbia Hotel. He had put his head through an aperture in one of the lift doors to call "to someone below, and just at that moment the lift ascended >.-; from the floor. above and came down upon him before he had time to withdraw his head, inflicting injuries which were almost instantly fatal. He was quite beyond hope when medical assistance arrived. The late Mr Pinnock was an elderly man. He is survived by Mrs Pinnock and three sons and * two daughters. He had *heen some twenty-iive years in Wellington.