During the course of the gale on Sunday a miraculous escape from death was experienced by some of the workmen engaged in erecting Messrs Hampson and Bell’s now premises. A large stack of timber was blown down on to one of the tents in which the men were sleeping, to within a foot of their heads, Had the occupants been sleeping the other way on a fatality must have occurred.
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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 153, 9 October 1919, Page 3
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