INJURIES PROVE FATAL
BUUHMAN DIES ON LAUNCH • GREAT BARRIER ACCIDENT A though attended 'by . a doctor who was despatched from Auckland in a nav' il amphibian'aircraft, the bu simian who suffered a fractured arm, and broken ribs when struck by a falling! tree on Groat Barrier Island on Friday afternoon died early oiri Saturday morning aboard tlie launch which w-'as,bring-ing him to the Auckland Hospital. Tlie victim was:-—, Mr, John Baker, aged lie, a half-caste-Maori, single, employed as a, bush- ; . man on the island. ■: Ji n inquest, opened on "Saturday was adjourned sine die.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23619, 1 April 1940, Page 8
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