BUSHFELLERS KILLED
LOSS OF TWO LIVES
MEN FAIL TO GET CLEAR
BOTH EXPERIENCED WORKERS
fatalities in far north
[by telegraph —OWN' correspondent] WHANGAREI, Wednesday Two bush felling fatalities have occurred in the Far North. Mr. Teri Pirikito Bristowe, a married man, aged 40, was engaged, together with 19 others, on a bushfelling contract at Orakau. Deceased was struck on the forehead by a small limb of a falling tree. He received a fracture of the skull and died within half an hour without regaining consciousness. Mr. David Apiatn, a married man, aged 24. of Oromahoe, was engaged with another man in felling an isolated tree at Waimate North. Deceased called out to his companion to get clear, but he himself was struck by the falling tree and received a fracture of the skull, and he died later. His companion got clear. The district coroner at Kaikohe, Mr. T. Guerin, conducted inquests, and a verdict of accidental death was returned in each instance. Both men were experienced bushmen, and all possible precautions were taken in. the felling operations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21258, 11 August 1932, Page 8
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