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ITRES3 ASSOCIATION' TELIS9BAM.) AVHANGAREI, April 23. Edwin Payne, aged eight, had one leg almost, completely taken off and the other severed below the knee when dragged by an endless wire rope through a pulley at the Hikurangi coal mine last evening. The boy and a companion were sitting on the rope when the engine started to take empty skips down the mine. He was operated on in hospital and his condition is satisfactory.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21147, 24 April 1934, Page 16
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