ACCIDENTS & DEATHS.
MAN KILLED IN GRAVEL PIT. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARCILL, Jan. 14. Mr John Dawson, aged 49, of Gorge Road, was killed this afternoon through being caught in a fall of gravel in a pit. With his son and two other men, Mr Dawson was filling gravel from the Gorge Road pit into a lorry which was backed against a gravel face 19 feet high. The face suddenly gave way on one side of the lorry, catchiing Mr Dawson and another workman, MiGeorge Duncan. The latter jumped aside, and though caught about the legs, escaped unhurt. Mr Dawson tried to evade the falling gravel, hut was almost covered. He was soon extricated, but died within 10 minutes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 79, 15 January 1936, Page 6
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