FELL OVER CLIFF.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TIMARU, this day.
The Timaru police have been advised of a fatal accident at Huxley Gorge, 50 miles from Kurow. Robert Clive Crawford, aged 20 years, a resident of Dunedin, was with a shooting party when he accidentally fell over a cliff and died of his injuries before the arrival of a doctor. -Auckland Star, 23/3/1940.
A shooting expedition in the Huxley Gorge, fifty miles from Kurow, had a fatal sequel last evening when Robert Clive Crawford, aged twenty a carpenter’s apprentice, of 7 Melville Street, Dunedin, fell over a fifty-foot cliff. He suffered a fractured skull, death being almost instantaneous.
Local residents consider Crawford would not have travelled over this section if he had been familiar with the district. -Grey River Argus, 27/3/1940.
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