RELIEF WORKER KILLED
STONE HURLED BY BLAST ROAD-MAKING TRAGEDY Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. An unemployed relief worker. Henry Tucker, engaged by the Public Works Department on a new road between Gebbie's Pass and Kennedy’s Bush, was killed today as a result of a blasting accident. A number of shots were being fired when Tucker was struck on the head by a piece of stone and killed instantly. A similar accident occurred on the same road on August 17, when another member of the gang was killed in almost similar circumstances.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 16
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