BUSHFELLING FATALITIES
TWO MEN KILLED (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND. This Day. _ Two bushfelling fatalities occurred in tho far north. Tcri Pirikito Bristowe, married, aged 40, years, was engaged in bushfclling at Orakau when he was struck on the forehead by a small limb of a falling tree, and received a fracture of the skull. He died within half an hour without regaining consciousness. David Apiata, married, aged 24 years, of Oromahoe, was engaged in felling a tree at Waimate North, when he was strucking by a falling tree. He received a fracture of the skull and died later. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned in each instance.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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