TWO MEN KILLED
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Shocking Tragedy in Gravel Pit
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WHAKATANE, Last Night. A shocking tragedy oceurred at the Matata gravel pit, 17 miles from Whakatane, before noon to-day, when two men, Ian Lees, a county employee, single, aged 45, a%d E. L. Mason, aged 30, a relief worker, married with four children, lost their lives as the result of being buried in a slip. After smoko, at 10 a.m., a number of men ascended a hill to engage in stripping, while Messrs Lees and Mason remained in the pit to load a truck. When the men descended to the pit at luneh time, they diseovered the sJip but no sign of their mates. They immediately communicated the fact to the township and the county office and 20 men, working in a limited spaee, uhearthed the bodies at about 2 p.m. Mason 's neclc. was broken and Lees died of suffocation. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 117, 3 June 1937, Page 9
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