FATAL INJURIES
SAWMILLER’S DEATH [Per Tress CHRISTCHURCH, Ort. 8. Severe injuries which proved fatal this evening were received on Monday afternoon by Ernest Hayward Morris, aged 50, a sawmiller, of Oxford. Some wood, which he was cutting with a power saw, flew up and a part, broke his ribs, which penetrated a lung, and the other part broke the chest bone, and penetrated the windpipe. A specialist was called from Christchurch, and though the lung injury was remedied the windpipe injury proved fatal. He was the proprietor of the mill whera the accident occurred.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 237, 7 October 1936, Page 7
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