KILLED WHILE BLASTING.
A CAMP COOK’S FATE.
Press Association
WELLINGTON, Jan. 2G,
Ail accident occurred to-day at tlio camp of instruction of tlio Wellington Engineer Volunteers at Mahanga Bay, by which Thomas Hall, a married man, aged GO years, who was cooking for tho cam)), was lulled. Hall was engaged in drawing water, and members of the company wore receiving blasting instructions some 120 yards away. A charge of gunpowdor was exploded on a piece of railway iron, a portion of which was thrown into tlio air, and in falling struck Hall on tho head, inflicting injuries from which lie soon died.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2098, 27 January 1908, Page 2
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