KILLED BY ROLLING LOG.
Per Press Association. MASTERTON, February 5. lan Donald M’Kenzie. a married man, lost his life as the result of a fatality at his home at Whareama, about 30 miles from Masterton, last evening. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. In company with four other men, M’Kenzie was loading two gum tree trunks on to a lorry. There were several bales of wool already on the lorry, and the tree trunks were each about 45 feet long. One tree was successfully loaded, and it was while the party was loading the other one that the accident occurred. The thin end of the tree was lifted on to the lorry on top of the wool, and one of the men climbed up to hold it in place. The other four, including M’Kenzie, remained on the ground to manoeuvre the heavy end of the log. They had almost succeeded in getting the tree into the lorry when it suddenly slipped and rolled, striking M’Kenzie heavily in the chest and killing him.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20222, 5 February 1934, Page 7
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