WORKMAN KILIED
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Leaves Widow and Eight Children
(By Te'ovranh-
TAUMARUNUI, Last Night. j A Katieke County surfaceman, .Thomas Francis Hogan, aged §2, was killed this morning while working in a pumice trench nine feet six inches deop" at thb junction of Oio No, 1 and Oio No. 2 roads about 12 miles from Raurimu. Deceased and another surfaceman, Harold Cole, wero preparing a i trench to replace the wooden culvert with concrete when one side of the , trench fell in. Gole managed to jump clbar but deceascd w&s buried in pum- . ice to a depth of sevetal feet. j Cole immeidately gave the alarm to I a settler and telephone mefisages 'brought - help from all directions. Ccle Imeanwhile commenced rescue work but 25 minutes passed before deceased 's body was recovered. A medical officer was summoned from Taumarunui but deceased wm dead when removed from J the trench. ' | The inquest opened this afternoon at ; Taumarunui before Mr. W. Thomas, coroner, when Mr. W. W. Stanton, Kai.tieke County engineer, identified the ,body and the inquest- was adjourned ,sine die. Deceased had been five years: in the council's employ and was a cap-, able workman. Be formerly lived at. Owhango. Decoased loaves a widow j » jind aight ohildren,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 7
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