FALL OF SIXTY FEET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18532, 17 October 1923, Page 11

FALL OF SIXTY FEET.

SYDNEY RESIDENT KILLED.

A well-known resident of Sydney, Mr. W. S. Tait, managing director of the firm of W. S. Tait and Company, Ltd., Island merchants, fell from a landing off the fourth floor of the Atlas Building, Spring Street, Sydney, a few days ago, (o a cement courtyard beneath, and was killed instantaneously.

Shortly after 11.30 he left his office on the third floor to go to an apartment, situated at the rear of the. building on the fourth floor. A few minutes later some workmen engaged in removing barrels from the courtyard beneath heard a thud, and on looking round saw.the prostrate form of Mr. Tait on some barrels in a corner of the yard. They rushed to his assistance., but he was unconscious, and died without! regaining consciousness. It is surmised that Mr. Tait had an attack of dizziness, to which he was subject, on the landing of the fire escape, which leads to the apartment. In staggering upon the narrow platform ho probably overbalanced and fell over the iron balustrade, about 3ft. in (height, to the courtyard below —a sheer drop of 60ft. Notwithstanding the fact that the accident occurred at one of the busiest periods of the day, and that the courtyard occupies .a central position, being completely surrounded by offices, nobody actually saw the accident.