FATAL INJURIES
PROPRIETOR OF SAWMILL (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 6. Severe bodily injuries, which proved fatal this evening, were received on Monday afternoon by Ernest Hayward Morris, aged 50, a sawmiller, of Oxford. Some wood which he was cutting with a power saw flew up and one part broke some ribs, which penetrated a lung, and another part broke his chest bone, which penetrated his windpipe. A specialist was called from Christchurch, and though the lung injury was remedied the windpipe injury proved fatal. Mofris was the proprietor of the mill where the accident occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 9
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