STEP TO DEATH
200-FOOT FALL INTO RIVER MAN’S FATAL ERROR PA NELSON, Feb. 21. Two men who alighted from a service car on the road between Upper Takaka and the Cobb power station last night stepped over the edge of the road. ~ Scrub 30 feet down stopped the fall of one man, but the other fell into the Takaka River 200 feet below and was killed. The man who was killed was Jack Longhurst, aged about 55 years, a Ministry of Works employee engaged in the Cobb dam construction. The other man, who was rescued suffering only a few abrasions, was Peter Robinson, a Ministry of Works employee. Longhurst’s body was recovered this morning from the river about 50 yards downstream from where the accident happened.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27012, 22 February 1949, Page 6
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126STEP TO DEATH Otago Daily Times, Issue 27012, 22 February 1949, Page 6
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