BUSH FALLER’S DEATH.
PINNED BY FALLEN TREE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association f XVER C A RGILL, East Night. Bertram Hughes, employed by Messrs Hamilton and Company, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when engaged in tree-felling in the bush at Tuatapere. Hughes and a companion named Farquharson felled a tree which struck the butt of another lying on the ground. The impact threw the head of the fallen tree towards the base of the trunk that had just been felled and Hughes was struck and pinned to the ground. Farquharson was also struck but was able to call other bushmen working close at hand. The tree was lilted from Hughes, who was alive, but unconscious. He died before reaching the hospital. Farquharson sustained fractured ribs, a slight injury to the lungs, and shock. Hughes was a married man aged 44, with two young sons. He was a popular resident of the district. In the war he was badly wounded at Passchendaele.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13169, 30 January 1936, Page 7
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