FATAL ACCIDENT AT WAIHI.
(By T.lesraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WAIHI. this day. M_.'..in Dale, employed a 1 the Waihi Company's Waikino battery as a re-
pairer, was killed yesterday afternoon whilst engaged handling a heavy piece of timber, which fell, pinning him to the floor. Dale only lived a short time alter the accident. Dr Craig wus immediately summoned, and the unfortunate man was made as comfortable as possible in the plan-room of the battery, where he died. Dale was a foreigner,'and it is noi known whether he had any relations in the cc-.lony. He had been in Waihi some .years, employed in the Waihi bat lerv rope-splicing, etc. He was well-known in the district.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1903, Page 5
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