COLLAPSE OF EARTH
SCHEELITE MINER KILLED P.A. INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. While engaged in mining scheelite near Glenorchy this afternoon a man was .killed by a fall of earth. He was Mr. William Stafford Nortlicotc, single, aged 40, of Glenorchy. Mr. Northcote and his brother were working an open face well up in the hills when, without warning, overhanging earth collapsed on him. His brother, who escaped injury, dug him out, but he was dead.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 85, 11 April 1945, Page 7
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