AN OLD SETTLER’S DEATH.
KILLED AT HIS WORK. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, March 6. Matthias Clatworthy, s'hipwrigpit, aged about 60, was killed at Ballena Bay, near Roseneath, this morning. Ho was engaged in caulking the bottom of the Harbour Board dredge punt, when a jack, which rested on a piece of tarred timber, slipped. Clatworthy was partly under the punt, which crashed on top of him, killing him instantly. Deceased, who leaves a widow and family, was at one time part-owner of the yachtslip at Clyde Quay, and was brought out from Homo in tho seventies by Messrs Kennard Bros., who carried out various large Government contracts In New Zealand,
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 55, 6 March 1913, Page 6
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110AN OLD SETTLER’S DEATH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 55, 6 March 1913, Page 6
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