ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
AUCTIONEER'S SUICIDE^
(Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, this day. John Palliser, of the auctioneering firm of Palliser and Co, was found in a state of collapse after taking poison in his mart this morning. He was hurried to hospital where he died shortly after admission. , v
DIED SUDDENLY AT WORK (Per. Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. John Thomson, 52, residing at Ravensbourne, died suddenly at his work at McLeod's soap works this morning. Deceased, who was a married man, bad been receiving treatment for heart trouble for some time.
BURIED BY FALL OF EARTH DUNEDU\ T , last night. While working in the Shag Point coal min§ to-day, William James Robinson, 36, was buried under a fall of earth and killed. Robinson, who is a single man, was erecting some staging in company with a workmate, Avhen six tons of earth fell from above. His workmate jumped clear, receiving only a cut on the head, but Robinson was completely buried. Tho body was recovered after three hours.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16653, 24 May 1928, Page 12
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