FARM HAND KILLED.
TEAM OUT OF CONTROL.
CRUSHED AGAINST GATE POST.
[by telegraph.—rr.Ess association.] BLENHEIM, Tuesday.
A farm hand, John Mervyn Bosselman, aged 34, was killed in the Seddon railway yard this morning. He was unloading an iron bath from a railway truck to a dray wltcn the three-horse team took fright and bolted. He attempted to stop thn horses at the gate, but ho was crushed against the - gatepost, and he expired almost immediately..
It is understood deceased was unmarried, and that .his father lives at Nelson.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 10
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