QUARRY FATALITY '
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Man Killed in Blastirig Operations
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CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night, Struck 6n the side of the head by a piece of rock about four incb.es in dia- '• meter which was thrown np during i blasting operations at the Summit road ' quarry Eobert Grice, aged 42, an employee of the Public Works Department, died this afternoon in the Christchurch Bospital. Grice was a married man with seven children living in Kenilworth street, Addington. The accident occurred in the morning when large boulders were being; broken up. Grice was sitting under a ledge at the other side of • the quarry, and the stone, was thrown over a. pilflii of rock 130 feet high and struck on the head, . ... . — . t , ' y
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 17, 4 February 1937, Page 6
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