TRAGIC OCCURRENCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 8

TRAGIC OCCURRENCE

DEATH AT OPERA HOUSE. Suffering a sudden seizure while engaged in bis duties as a doorkeeper at the Opera House at 7.40 last evening, Mr Henry Francis Robinson, of 53 Campbell Street, collapsed and passed away before medical aid arrived. At tlio time people were entering the Opera House for a social function but few were in the immediate vicinity where death took place, and not many were aware that any untoward event had occurred. Engaged to take tickets for the dance being held in the Municipal Hall last evening, the late Mr Robinson had occasion to go upstairs to speak to Mr H. J. Sutton, and was noticed to have a distressed appearance. He sat down on an adjacent chair, but immediately collapsed and death occurred. Dr. P. T. Putnam was summoned and pronounced life extinct. Aged 49 the late Mr Robinson leaves a wife and four young children. He was well-known in the city, having formerly followed the occupation of a commercial traveller and later conducted a fruit business in Cuba Street. Some years ago he was a member of the Palmerston North Bowling Club, and took a keen interest in sport. Lntterly lie had been engaged on relief work, and had often assisted at functions held in the Opera House. Death was due to heart failure. The late Mr Robinson recently underwent an operation in the Hospital. The family have the sympathy of many friends in their bereavement.