FURTHER TRIBUTES
HUNTLY MINE TRAGEDY REMAINING VICTIMS BURIED (Times Special Reporter) HUNTLY, Wednesday ! Further tributes to those who lost I their lives in the Glen Afton mine disaster of Sunday were paid today i when the funerals of the remaining victims took place. The bodies of Messrs R. Turley and W. Bell were laid to rest early this afternoon at the Ngaruawahia Cemetery, while the body of Mr R. Ireland, which was 1 recovered yesterday with Messrs
Turley and Bell, was buried in the Huntly Cemetei-y this aliernoon with Messrs C. Blackburn, W. Brown, W. Peden and W. Cole, whose bodies were recovered on Sunday. The large attendance of miners, representatives of Glen Afton Collieries, Limited, the New Zealand Cooperative Dairy Company, Limited, many other local bodies and the Hon W. Lee Martin, member for the trict, on behalf of the Government and the profuse floral emblems, were eloquent testimony to the sympathy that is being expressed to the dependants.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 9
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160FURTHER TRIBUTES Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 9
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