FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT
PRISONER KILLED BY ROCK.
By Tci egraph.- —Press Association.
Taumarunui, Last Night
An accident occurred at the quarry at the Makatote viaduct when, through a fall of earth and rock, a prisoner named Arthur Hasler was killed and another prisoner named Ronald Walter Neilson received a broken leg. At ten o’clock this morning some men were carrying out drilling operations when a fall of earth came down from 50 feet up. Hasler was killed instantly. Neilson’s leg was struck by a rock and suffered a double fracture. A warder named Raton, who was standing a few feet away, escaped uninjured.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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103FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1926, Page 7
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