WHARE TRAGEDY.
ROADMAN KILLED. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION. BODY BLOWN TO PIECES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, tliis day. A single man, Harry.Gardiner, middleaged, who was a roadman employed by the Akitio County Council was blown to pieces with his whare at Akitio this morning. . As he was alone, the cause of the tragedy is unknown. All that remained of the body were some small pieces, which were collected in a kerosene tin. Details of the tragedy are meagre, as the man who was killed was alone in the whare, and what really happened is only a matter of conjecture. Ho had delivered some mail to a settler living nearby and returned to his movable abode Five minutes later the noise of the explosion was heard, and on investigation being made it was found that the place had. been blown to atoms. The occupant suffered a similar fate, all that remained being small pieces of flesh. It is-presumed that the victim was warming gelignite for use in removing corncrs on the road.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 8
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