CRUSHED UNDER GRAIN
CANADIAN KILLED . FORMER CABINET MEMBER (Reed. March 8. 2.20 p.m.) SASKATOON, March 7. Mr. Robert Weir, who was the Canadian Minister of Agriculture in the Bennett Cabinet, was instantly killed when a sleigh load of grain on the way from Mr. Weir’s farm at Weldon to a grain elevator overturned on a steep hill, crushing him underneath. He lost his seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 election.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 7
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