A SHEPHERD'S FATAL FALL.
[Hl* TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CrrHiSTCHCBCH, Monday.
Tax police have received a. message from Methven, stating that the head .shepherd on the Mesopotamia station, named Ernest Oscar Charles Oilman, was killed by clipping and falling on the frozen surface of a steep spur on the station, on the 4lh hist., when mustering. When the other shepherds got down off the hills with their sheep, Oilman was missing, and » search party Was at once organised. The body of deceased was found at one a.m. on the sth hist, with the dogs guard it. It is presumed that the man Mas killed instantaneously by the fall. The ground is treacherous, a covering of snow having been frozen by severe, frosts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 8 May 1906, Page 5
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121A SHEPHERD'S FATAL FALL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 8 May 1906, Page 5
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