COALMINER KILLED.
BURIED BY SUDDEN FALL. EXTRICATED AFTER- TWO HOURS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INYERCARGILL, Tuesday. As a result of a fall of coal, Mr. Robert J. Dixon, aged 54, of Ohai, was killed this evening while working in the Wairaki mine. Although strenuous endeavours were made to extricate him, his body was not recovered until two hours after the tragedy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 209, 4 September 1929, Page 13
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