STRUCK BY LOG
MAORI’S DEATH.
(Per United Press Association.)
Thames, January 9.
A half caste Maori, Allan Davis, aged 55, was fatally injured at Tapu, 12 miles up the Thames coast. Deceased was engaged with another Maori in sending logs down a wire chute when he was struck by a log and sustained a compound fracture of the left thigh and wounds in the back of the head and the left forearm. He died during removal in the ambulance to hospital.
Deceased was a member of the first contingent of the Pioneer battalion N.Z.E.F. He leaves three grown-up sons in North Auckland. His wife died in the influenza epidemic in 1918.
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Southland Times, Issue 22218, 10 January 1934, Page 4
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