FATALITY AT MAPUA
WHILE SHIFTING SCHOOL BUILDING
Quite a gloom was cast over the Mapua district on Tuesday last, when it became known that the task of shifting the school building had resulted in a fatality, the victim being Mr Robert Edward Albert Gadd, 47 years of age, married, with three children.
Operations were proceeding in lowering a wall on to a lorry with block and tackle, when the rope broke and the wall fell a distance of about two feet, striking the deceased on the back of the neck, breaking the neck. Death ensued almost immediately. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
Sincere sympathy will be extended to the bereaved widow and family. -Nelson Evening Mail, 19/1/1923.
FUNERAL NOTICE
THE friends of the late Robert Edward Albert Gadd are respectfully informed that his funeral will leave his residence TO-MORROW (Thursday) January 18th, at 1.30 p.m. for the Motueka Cemetery. EDMUND PARKER, Undertaker. -Nelson Evening Mail, 17/1/1923.
THANKS
MRS E. GADD and Family wish to thank all kind friends for letters and wires of sympathy also floral tributes in their recent sad bereavement. Especially those who gave assistance. -Nelson Evening Mail, 24/1/1923.
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