CRUSHED BY TREE
BOY FATALLY INJURED BROTHER IN HOSPITAL (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. ..Ray Kenneth Tleiiwood, 15, whose parents reside, at Inglewood, was killed instantly in a tree-felling accident at his parents’ farm yesterday. His brother Clarence, 13, was injured. , Kenneth went to gather firewood. He climbed 40ft. up a pine tree and lassoed a stump 30ft. high, standing 12ft. away. The stump was rotten, and fell, striking a cleft in the tree on a fork of which Henwood was clinging. This brushed, a branch to the ground, and Henwood, clinging to it in its fall, was pinned underneath and killed. Clarence was struck by a falling branch and was later removed to hospital. He had complained of stomach
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18468, 6 August 1934, Page 11
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122CRUSHED BY TREE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18468, 6 August 1934, Page 11
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