ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Feb Pbkss Association.! WESTPORT, Feb. 7. The body has not yet been recovered of Patrick Burke, road contractor, who fell into the Buller river from the wharf on Friday night. An A.B. named Esmond, belonging to the Hauroto, made a gallant but unsuccessful effort to rescue him. PAHIATUA, Feb. 7. George Miller, aged eight years and nine months, son of a Ngaturi settler, was drowned in the Tiraumea river yesterday -afternoon. The lad went up the river with a brother six years old to look for two other boys, and the elder boy slipped off a papa ledge into the water. The younger boy was unable to save him. The boy's father recovered the body soon afterwards, but all attempts at resuscitation failed. GREYMOUTHj Feb. 7. George Strongman, residing at Cobderi, married, was killed instantaneously by a fall of stone at midday at No. 1 State mine. AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. A man yarned Herbert Ivingswell, a printer by trade, was found in a dying condition in the scrub beyond Avondale. He died subsequently from want of nourishment and exposure.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9135, 7 February 1910, Page 5
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182ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9135, 7 February 1910, Page 5
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