FATALITY AT MANUNUI.
BURIED BY PUMICE. The- young man Grant, who was killed/while working on Messrs Ellis and Burnand's tramline at Manunui on Monday afternoon, met his death by being crushed under a large block of pumice, which fell upon him from a bank; Shortly before 4 o'clock, which was the knocking off time, a gang of men were laying n, stringer on a portion of the tramline, while others-were picking at the bottomof a pumice bank with the object of getting some stuff down. Suddenly a block of pumic" some 10ft wide and 18in thick dislodged itself and came down on them. Grant appeard to notice the. danger, for he pushed a mate named Webster out of the way. However, before he could save himself the falling mass struck him and knocked him against the stringer, buriyng him completely. His mates at once got to work with picks and shovels, and his body was uncovered in two or three minutes, but life was extinct. Grant was eighten years of age, single, and it is believed that his only relative in the Dominion -is a . brother living, Ar Auckland. <■ His mother^liveWafrAWr-' *'■'■>■■■ >.HU:-(>>-¥,.C>a-, .
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 532, 11 January 1913, Page 6
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192FATALITY AT MANUNUI. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 532, 11 January 1913, Page 6
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