QUAERY ACCIDENT
WORKMAN SUFFOCATED
■. (By TelegraplL-rPress Associatidn.) ~ ':/^ '■■-.■ ':)i-l .^AtrCKLrAND^Marct-lt-.';.' A fatal aeeident occurred at ■ quarries on the bank,of the Waikato Eiver at Tuakauy when a workman, Alfred Charles Baigent, '47. years of age;'-mar-ried,* was buried by metal -■ dust -in' i a hopper .and was suffocated. •- aa ' :■.:: '■:=■ ... ..It;is thought.that: the deceased was: standing on the top: .pf. the metal: ;whehit .sudd)9niy^gaye';way,ib6nyatlil'.himi.'->.';'-He was turled to the bottom of the hopper/ being: biified; beneath; abouti 20 itons , ; of :dust;v:'vf \-\ f\ ':■.'■•■ •v'-'--V. ,■•''•'.■'.■ ;.. .-^.' ■';'";'; V? : No; one: saw the accident, but (his'-ab-sence led to a .surmise tha^-a -mishap had .occurred. His* companions" quickly trecove'red; Baigent; I'but- a doctor found he,was: dead..:;- ;.\:-;-; :> ■■'■-: ; -/ -' '■}. ■/: 1 :»^he; deceased;; is^urviyed: byVa ; wife/' two/ soliis^ahd^ two daughters, '^h:
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 63, 15 March 1934, Page 6
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116QUAERY ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 63, 15 March 1934, Page 6
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