AGED FARMER’S DEATH
INJURIES IN FIRE FELL ON BURNING TREE (Pnr Press Association.) WAIHI, last night. Terrible injuries caused by burns and resulting in death, were sustained by Mr. W. M. Stables, aged 84. on his farming property at Paretu, in the Whangamata district. Mr. Stables at the time was engaged in burning off scrub on a 20-acre area when the fire got ahead of him, crossing a fire-break. In making an attempt to beat out the flames, Mr. Stables evidently fell on a burning tree trunk and' was overcome by smoke and fumes. He was picked up in an unconscious condition by a youth employed on the farm.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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109AGED FARMER’S DEATH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19584, 16 March 1938, Page 13
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