ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
ACCIDENT IN THE BUSH. Per Press Association. Taihape, Tuesday. A fatality took place in the Egm'ont Box Company's bush at Olmtu. John Dunning, aged 30, a single man, was engaged in loading logs, and while coupling a truck to an engine,' he missed the connection of the spreader. The engine backed and caught Dunning's head between the end of a log and the engine hook. Death was- almost instantaneous.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 21, 25 June 1913, Page 5
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