ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
MISHAPS AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND. Tuesday. While alighting from a tramcar last evening, Mr Alexander McGregor, aged 78, slipped and fell, sustaining a cut on the head and concussion of the brain. Injuries to tlie head were sustained yesterday by a waterside worker, Mr W. C. Borland, who was engaged in unloading benzine from the steamer Baron Fairlie. lie fell from some staging,' and it is believed that his skull was fractured. A broken arm was sustained by Mr John llalpin, an employee in the railway goods .shed, when a crowbar slipped. A waterside worker, Mr Robert Fulton, was admitted to hospital with a broken leg, caused lay an accident when working on tile Canadian Winner. As tlie result of being struck by a motor car Mr Patrick Woodhouse, was taken to the hospital last evening suffering from a fracture of the leg.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 8
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