STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
MARRIED MAN TOLLED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Struck by a tree which he was helping to fell on the property of Mr. F. Parry, Papanui, Keith Ward, a married man with two children, of 28 Wilmer street, was killed almost instantly. Mr. Ward and his brother, David Alexander Ward, with two other young men, were felling an old wattle. Keith Ward was sawing and the others guiding the tree by pulling a rope to prevent it from falling on the house on the property. As the tree fell Keith Ward began to run in the same direction and the trunk fell across him.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19898, 28 March 1939, Page 6
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