ROCK FALLS FROM CLIFF
| RAILWAY WORKER KILLED By Telegraph—l’res;. Association CHRISTCHURCH, July 15 Royal Frank Chapman, aged 33. married, was killed in an accident at the Conway bridge early this morning. He was an employee of the Public Works Department, and was engaged on railway construction work for the South Island main trunk. Chapman was on night shift and at 3.20 a.m. was preparing to fire a shot under a cliff when a piece of rock fell on him from a height of about 10 feet. He died on the way to the Kaikoura hospitaL
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 8
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95ROCK FALLS FROM CLIFF Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 8
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