FATAL FALLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15170, 9 December 1912, Page 8

FATAL FALLS.

AUCKLAND MAN KILLED.

ACCIDENT AT PORT AW AHUM.

[bt telegraph.—press association*.] Gisborne, Saturday. Mr. Frank Warbrick, manager for the Waiapu Farmers* Co-operative Company, while checking wool at Port Awahuri this morning fell backwards from the wharf into a surf boat, and died when being conveyed to Waipiro Bay. He was a young man. and was to have beon married at Christmas time.

The late Mr. Warbrick was well-known and much esteemed amongst business men in Gisborne. The deceased, who was a young man, came from Auckland, where his relatives reside, a number of years ago, and for some time was accountant at the Tokomarn Freezing Company's worksThis position he resigned to tako up that of manager of the Waiapu Dumping Company. This death is deeply regretted throughout the whole of the district.

FALL INTO SHIP'S HOLD.

[])T TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Wellington, Saturday.

At. the inquest on John Thomas Hopkins, public health inspector, who died yesterday, the verdict returned was that deceased met his death through a fracture of skull, evidently sustained through accidently falling down the hold of the steamer lonic.