3000 FT. FALL
PLATFORM CRASHES
TEN PERSONS KILLED IN MINE
(Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, December 19. Two Europeans . and ten natives working on a steel platform at the top of the new shaft at the Crown mines was killed when a platform weighing eight tons, struck the side of the shaft, when being moved. One chain snapped and the sudden strain caused other chains to break. The platform felll three thousand fi'et into forty feet of water.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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803000FT. FALL Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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