FIREWOOD GATHERER'S DEATH.
I?BES3 ASSOCIATION. • OAKAJUT, July 30. ItobOTt Blacks, aged twenty-four years, met liia death in a peculiar manner on Saturday. With anothep man. ho was out gathering firewood on. the riverbed. of Kakairui. H© climbed a large-rock ovctrhanging- a deep pool in the rivor, and slipped off into the waif or. Tie grasped a long polo hoki out to him by liis mate, but when near the bank let go. ' His mate went in and brought him out, but he was fxmnd to bo dead, it is supposed fTom shock and stop page of hearths notion. - •
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7866, 31 July 1911, Page 5
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