DEATH AT TENNIS.
YOUNG MAN COLLAPSES. VICTORIA COLLEGE STUDENT. [ET TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Sunday. Tragedy marred a tennis party on a private court at Khandallah yesterday afternoon. Mr. John Martin Gibbons, aged 19, second son of Mr. W. B. Gibbons, a well-known Wellington business man, was watching a gamo and when a ball went out ho attempted to retrieve it, but collapsed and died shortly afterwards. Deceased formerly was at the Wanganui Collegiate School and at the time of his death was a student at Victoria University College. Born at Wanganui he came to Khandallah 12 years ago. He was a grandson of Mr. Hope Gibbons, formerly Mayor of Wanganui.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21007, 19 October 1931, Page 6
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