ACCIDENTS
—♦ — PILOT KILLED
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. Sept. 22. Flying Officer Philip Robert Colfox Clark, of Auckland, lost his life in an aircraft accident about 9.25 a.m. to-day. He was the pilot of a fighter which, while climbing shortly after taking off from Ohakea Air Force station, was seen to become out of control. The pilot adandoned the aircraft, but his height was insufficient to allow his parachute to open. His father is Mr B. E. Clark, of Kohimarama, Auckland.
MINER KILLED BY FALL OF COAL
(P.A.) WHANGAREI, Sept. 22. Struck and buried by a fall of coal when working about 26 chains underground in the Kamo mine this morning, a miner died before admission to the Whangarei Hospital. He was Henry J.ohn Dobson, aged 57, married, of Whangarei. Working with another miner, Dobson was engaged in extracting pillars of coal when he was almost completely buried by a fall of two tons. His companion immediately summoned assistance. Dobson was dug out alive, but unconscious, but he was dead on arrival at the hospital.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24370, 23 September 1944, Page 8
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