FATAL INJURIES
- HASTINGS MAN KILLED .RUN I OVER BY•DRAY i . ,r ' 1 CPer Press Assocjation.) HASTINGS, this day. . Fatal injuries were received yesterday afternoon by Mr. James Guy God-frey-Taylor, a middle-aged married man with three children, when a wheel of the dray ho ’ was driving passed over his head. • Mr. Godfrey-Taylor, a relief worker, was engaged.in. the work of diverting the Tutaekuri River at Meeanec, live miles from Napier, into a new channel to avoid flooding. He had driven (lie dray, withjthrce horses, up the.spillway on to. the river bank and tipped spoil on to the bank. While going down the spillway at the other end tho horses bolted, and in an endeavor to check them Mr. Godfrey-Taylor, who was sitting on tho base of the shaft, fell off and the wheel passed over his head. Serious injuries were received, and Mr. Godfrey-Taylor was removed to hospital, where he died three hours later, at 6.45 o’clock. The bank of the river is about 20ft. high, and the spillway is approximately a chain in length.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18355, 24 March 1934, Page 5
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