DEATH IN QUARRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 314, 27 March 1928, Page 1

DEATH IN QUARRY

TRAPPED IN HOPPER BURIED IN BOULDERS (From Our Own Correspondent.) WAIHI, To-day. A fatal accident occurred at Aongatete yesterday morning. Mr. William James Mayberry, of Morran Street, Waihi, who was employed in the Armstrong-Whitwortli quarry, had gone into a hopper to pick down the metal that had stuck to the sides, and while he was there; seven truck loads of metal boulders were emptied down the chute. They weighed roughly about 25 tons, and as the fall is one in three Mr. Mayberry had very little chance of escape in thp enclosed space. No one appears to have known of the accident until trucking operations were commenced some time later from the bottom of the hopper, when a man’s legs were seen protruding from the metal. Assistance was at once sought to release him, but when rescued has was dead. His head and body were badly crushed, and death must have been instantaneous.

Deceased leaves a widow and two boys aged 11 years and 13 years.