TWO KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 13

TWO KILLED.

BURIED BY PUMICE. MAORI BOY VICTIMS. COLLAPSE OF PIT SIDE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE PUKE, this day. Two Maori boys were killed when part of a pumice pit near the Kaftuna River collapsed yesterday afternoon. Both children were aged about 10 years. The boye, one the eon of Mr. P Gray, and the other hi* cousin Paul were playing with another Maori in 'a low pumice pit in eight of the main road near Waitangi Pβ, The third boy left the other two about 4 p.m. and that was the, last time they were eeen alive. The back of the quarry, which k more than 10 feet high, must have collapsed and buried them. It is not known lionlong the boys were buried before the accident wo* discovered. One body wa* recovered just below the surface of the elip, the rescuers working with their hand*. The body of the other boy wa« located near the bank and was buried to a depth of four feet. It appears ns though one bov was close to the *ide of the pit and wa* caught by the full force of the fall and tnnt the other lur-.hed in to pull him out and had been himself buried.

A-) isooii ns the fiivt h(ifl\- was recovered Mr. Forrester, of -the Tauranira Klo. trie Power RonrdV «tflff. who hiipponod to Ik; p ';••■•. fniui-piir-ed artificial respiration. Dr. L. Randell, who ' wa« summoned. al*o tried every moans of stimulating the puW. hoth'by artificial respiration and by injpctione, but hie efforts were unsuccessful.