BLASTING MISHAP
JAW SA! ASHED TO-PULP
By Teleg.aph —Per Press Association. i
TAIHAPE, May 31. Another hiasiing accident occurred lit 10.30 this morning.
A madman named Patrick Irwin, son-in-law of Herbert \) hale, was placing plugs of gelignite in a big rock at Bennett’s Siding, near Taihape, when one plug stuck in the lio'e. Irwin tried to force it down with the handle of a shovel. There was no detonator or fuse in the hole, hut an explosion occur- '. !,w n line hi- jaw smashed to pulp. |-(> lies in a crecarioiis condition in h vitai. W'l-alc was knocked down, but sa-t-’iicd no serious injury, and be was a \ ; return home after medical attention.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1929, Page 6
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