SAWMILL WORKER'S DEATH
STRUCK BY WIRE HAWSER. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COB RESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Sunday. The death occurred in the. Waikato Hospital lo day of Mr. Michael o'Ke,efe ( aged 37 years, of Frankton, as the result- nf an accident which occurred at a sawmill at Nowstead, Hamilton, on Thursday. i\lr. O'Keefe was standing by a log which was being hauled to the mill when the wire hawser attached to the log snapped and swing back with great force, striking him on the legs and breaking both limbs. Mr. O'Keefe was a married man with p three children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19455, 11 October 1926, Page 10
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