KAIWAKA TUNNEL ACCIDENT.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 11

KAIWAKA TUNNEL ACCIDENT.

• ♦- — BODY OF ENTOMBED MAN LOCATED. CPSXS9 ASSOCIATION TstSGJUH.) NAPIER, I)eeember 2. The body of one of the entombed m«D in the Kaiwaka tunnel was located at eight o'clock this morning, but on account of the difficult nature of the work it is not expected that it will be possible to extricate him till this, evening. It is thought that death was instantaneous in the case of this man, and also the other missing one, who it is supposed, will be found six or eight feet further in tbe tunnel. Since the first fall of earth several hundred tons more of material have fallen, completely blocking the. passage. The workers are engaged continuously day and night in the task of recovering the bodies.

TUNNELLER'S PREVIOUS NARROW ESCAPE.

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AUCKLAND, December 2,

Mr John Robert Hohensee, one of the men entombed in the collapsed tunnel at Kaiwaka, is a native of Queensland, but came to New Zealand some years ago. He is about 39 years of age and was married at Wellington in 1919. He then went to Queensland, intending to take up farming, but soon returned to New Zealand again. He had had considerable experience in tunnelling work and was engaged at the Mangahao hydro-electrie works with the gang which was overtaken by disaster early in July of last. year. Mr Holienseo, however, had left for Auckland two days before his companions were killed. He haa hia home at Grey Lynn, but for the past three months haa been living with hia wife sit Eskdale, near the scene of the accident.