A FATAL FALL
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wire gable breaks CAGE CROSSING MOLYNEUX DROPS INTO WATER CABLE OUT OF REPAIR
■By Telesrranh — Coovrlsrnt).
Dunedin, Monday Precipitate-d 60 feet into the Molyneux River when the rope of a chajr in which they were crossing broke, •two miners, . Trevor Gilbert" and Thomas King, each aged 2-5,-both of Timaru, were drowned yesterday. A third, Ernest Nixon, was rescued and is now in the Clyde Hospital with a leg injury. The party had been working.. on . the mipers' subsidy scheme neaf Clyde recently, and then began using a private chair owned by an orchardist and which had been unused for six years. The owner had p'adlocked'the chair but the pin was re-moved, and the chair put in use in order to e^ade a fhree-mile walk round to the opposite bank. The chair was direetly over the gorge when. the crash occurred. Nixon re-tained his grip of the rope and was hauled out after being 15 minutes in the ice-cold water.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 616, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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164A FATAL FALL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 616, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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