ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
[Peb Pkess Association.] FELLUIiNIi, June 21. Mr George Younger, an old and respected settler in this district, was killed near Rangiwahia last evening, when. returning from his farm at Kawhatau. He was driving a trap, one wheel of which struck a piece cf timber placed across a water-table along a sidling. . The vehicle was overturned, pinning Mr Younger to the ground. When found he was unconscious, and died, at two o'clock this inorning. Lord Roberts is an exceedingly clever wood-carver, and as a boy could carve and cut out a boat with any lad in. the' land. These boats he would rig .up limself .'and give away to his . friends, by whom they ' -..were much "sought after. CliarleV Baresford, too, also excels' in tie art 01 wood-carving.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6827, 21 June 1900, Page 3
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