MINE TRAGEDY
TWO CHILDREN KILLED KNOCKED DOWN BY MINE SKIPS. ACCIDENT NEAR HUNTLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 17. Two Maori children were killed at Waikokowai, near Huntly, today when they were knocked down by mine skips on the rope road from the Macdonald coal mine. The victims were: Dorothy Rawiri, aged 2. Nganaro Aterangi Rawiri, aged 2. Th'e boy, Nganaro Rawiri, was a son of Mr Hautangarua Rawiri, Waikokowai, and the girl was Mr Rawiri's niece. The Maori settlement is only a few chains away from the rope road, which was working at the time conveying loaded skips from the mine.
The parents of the boy lost sight of the children for about five minutes. A relative of the children saw them climbing on to the rope road, but before she could reach the scene to stop them the boy was knocked down by two loaded skips which passed over him. He was dragged about 30 feet and death was instantaneous. The relative arrived in time to pull the girl away as one of the skips passed over her hand, which was partly severed. She was taken to the Waikato Hospital, where she died this afternoon.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 7
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197MINE TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1941, Page 7
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