DRIVER OF GRADER KILLED
MACHINE DROPS 30 FEET OVER BANK ACCIDENT AT EAST TAKAKA When a road grader went over the river bank on the East Takaka road yesterday morning the driver, Mr Napier McFedries, aged 31 years, a married man with one child, received head injuries from which he later succumbed in the Takaka Cottage Hospital. As there were no witnesses of the accident it is not known how it happened. Mr McFedries was grading a section of road which he had been accustomed to working on, when, about a mile this side of Gorge Creek, the grader left the road and fell some 3U feel, landing right side up on a ledge. Below this there was a sheer drop of about 70 feet to the river bed. The driver was thrown out and was founc. unconscious alongside the grader, which was not badly damaged. He was discovered by Mr H. S. Solly, a driver of one of Newman’s service cars which came along soon after, and was taken to the Takaka Cottage Hospital, where lie died last night. Mr McFedries had been in the employ of the Takaka County Council for about eight years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 October 1937, Page 4
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