FATAL ACCIDENT IN QUARRY

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 50, 23 November 1926, Page 10

FATAL ACCIDENT IN QUARRY

PRISONER KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION

Taumarunui, November 22.

An accident occurred this morning at a quarry near the Dlakotote viaduct, when through a fall of earth and rock, a prisoner, Arthur Hasler, was killed, and another prisoner, Ronald Walter Neilson, had a leg broken. The men were carrying out drilling operations when the fall of earth came down from fifty feet up. Hasler was killed instantly. Neilson’s leg was struck by a rock and he suffered a double fracture. A warder, Raton, who was standing a few feet away, escaped uninjured.

AUCKLAND WOOL SALE

A RECORD ENTRY Dominion Special. Auckland, November 22. The first wool sale of the season in Auckland has attracted a record entry for a first sale. The number of bales to hand totals approximately 17,000 bales. The catalogues for the sale were supposed to close on Saturday, but as flock owners had great difficulty in getting their clips shorn owing to wet weather it was decided that brokers would accept all wool that arrived during the week-end. The influx of wool was so great that it was impossible to-day to obtain more than approximate figures of the arrivals at the various stores. The sale was fixed for Fri'*iy, but it is practically certain it will start on Thursday evening to enable all catalogues to be cleared. The buyers are due to leave for Christchurch on Friday evening to prepare f° r the. sale in the southern city on the following Wednesday.