FALL OF EARTH
LABOURER CRUSHED TO DEATH
By Telegraph—Press Association OAMARU, June 15.
While working for the Public Works Department at an excavation on the main highway for a subway at the Deborah level crossing, Robert Alfred Waddington was crushed by a fall of earth, death being practically instantaneous. He was 36 years of age, and married, with three children. He lived in Weston.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20445, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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64FALL OF EARTH Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20445, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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