KILLED IN WAIHI MINE
MAN STRUCK BY LARGE STONE. Press Association. WAIHI, October 18. A miner named John MacPherson was /tilled yesterday afternoon in the Waihi mine. It appears that a round of holes had been fired, after -which McPherson returned and barred down the loose stones. A large piece cams away unexpectedly, striking McPherson on the head, and killing him almost instantaneously. Deceased leaves a wife and six children.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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70KILLED IN WAIHI MINE New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 5
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