ACCIDENT ON STEAMER.
MAN FRACTURES HIS SKULL.
NOT FOUND FOR MANY HOURS.
[ur TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday.
After being missing since two o'clock yesterday, Mr. Jack Ronald Malcolm Miller, aged 28, of tho firm of j. D. Miller, shipwrights, Lytlelton, was found at 9.30 this morning lying unconscious on tho 'tween decks of the Shaw-Savill liner Coptic. He had been there since yesterday afternoon. It is surmised ho accidentally fell from a companion ladder, striking his head on tho deck. Tho reason ho was jiot found earlier was that tho Coptic was idlo yesterday. Mr. Miller is suffering from a fracturo of tho skull. Ilis condition is dangerous, but there aro hopes for his recovery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 8
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