A FATAL SEIZURE
DEATH WHILE SWORD-FISHING (Per United Psess Association.) ' ;- : ;tAURANGA, March 5.■ While fishing off Mayor Island, on Sunday morning. William Williamson Livingstone, of Matamata, ' suddenly- collapsed and died. Livingstone, who had hooked a swordfish, played it for ,10’minutes, when he complained of a pain in the chest and asked a friend, Mr- C.B. Daveny, of Morrihsville, to take his rod. As he was hand-ing-.it' over lie collapsed add died immediately. The party proceeded ,to the island, where Dr Wallis, of Rotorua, pronounced life extinct. The body was .conveyed, to Tauranga and thcnce to -Matamata. . Mr Livingstone was 69 years of age,-and was a well-known deer stalker and angler. He was a director of the Fanners’ Cooperative Auctioneering Company.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 8
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120A FATAL SEIZURE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 8
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