LABOURER'S DEATH
ADJOURNMENT OF INQUEST
An inquest into the death of William Valdamir Watson, a farm labourer, aged 37, whose body was discovered lying on the floor of a lavatory at the Newmarket railway station on Monday morning, was opened hv Mr. W. K. McKean, S.M., yesterday. Deceased's cousin, Wilfred Henry Lavcock, an engineer, said that deceased was a married man with 0110 child and had been living apart from hip wife. Witness had last seen him alive at 9.30 p.m on Sunday, when he left witness' home to go to his work on a farm at Ararimu. On the same day he had informed witness that be was suffering from a touch of rheumatism in the right shoulder, but he was in good spirits when lie left the house. Witness added that Watson had been following the occupation of a farm labourer for a number of years, but he had a very good knowledge of chemistry, having worked in a chemist's shop in the Auckland dis trict after the war. The inquest was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 13
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175LABOURER'S DEATH New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 13
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