FATAL INJURIES
ACCIDENT IN HARVEST FIELD.
Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, Jan. 3. As the result of a harvesting accident which occurred on Mr ±l. *>• Gluyas’s property at Grassmere a to - night ago, James Smyrl, aged dU, single, died in tli6 Wairau Hospita . When deceased was mowing S r f ss ,‘V s team started to move off, Bmyrl rusned to check them and was knocked down in the path of the mowing kn • He was dragged about eighty vards. fz child on the machine ha<T the presence of mind to pull the knife out of gear, but the steel fingers of the struck Smyrl on the head and ’ fracturing his skull. # i in^L C o. meningitis set in, with fatal consequences. _
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 8
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