MAN KILLED IN QUARRY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27410, 24 July 1954, Page 6

MAN KILLED IN QUARRY

COMPANION INJURED ROCK FACE COLLAPSES ON MACHINERY (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 23. One man was killed and another injured when a quarry face on which they were working collapsed this afternoon. The quarry is in Upper Parihaka road, Rahotu. The injured man and a rescuer narrowly escaped death in a second fall shortly afterwards. The man killed was Martin Foot, aged 30. The injured man is Mr I. Lylkes, aged 22. Both were Dutch immigrants. The men were engaged in carting metal from the quarry, and they were shovelling loose metal into a trailer drawn by a tractor. Shortly after 5 p.m., Mr P. Lorimer, who lives about half a mile away, heard Mr Lylkes calling his name. He ran down the road to the quarry, and found Mr Lylkes lying on his back and buried up to his armpits in loose sand and boulders. Mr K. Frost, of New Plymouth, who had just arrived at Mr C. W. Green’s property, arrived shortly afterwards. The two men lifted Mr Lylkes’s head from a pool of water in which it lay, and began to scrape away the sand which covered his chest. At this moment a rock weighing about five tons crashed down upon the already wrecked trailer, beside which Mr Lylkes was buried. “The rock struck a smaller one and balanced there,” said Mr Lorimer later. “If it hadn’t been for that, it would have rolled over Mr Lylkes and me.”

It took three-quarters of an hour to free Mr Lylkes, whose legs were pinned by rocks, and from 5.30 p.m. until 8 p.m. to recover Mr Poot’s body. Mr Lylkes was taken to the New Plymouth Hospital by ambulance. He suffered shock and extensive bruising, as well as an injury to his right leg. His condition is satisfactory. Mr Poot had been driving a bulldozer and Mr Lylkes the tractor. PEDESTRIAN FATALLY INJURED (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 23. A middle-aged man was fatally injured tonight when a ear struck him as he was crossing a road in Remuera. He was Murray Pattinson C’hinchen, married, a clerk, of Victoria avenue, Remuera. MAN DIES FROM INJURIES (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 23. A man injured when a boiler exploded in the “New Zealand Herald” printing works, Auckland, on July 5, died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday. He was George Edgar Butcher, aged 38, single, of 9 Euston road, Sandringham, Auckland. CHILD FOUND DEAD IN COT (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 23. A 2i-months-old child was found dead in her cot yesterday. The child was Margaret Laylene lorangi Oringi, daughter of Mr and Mrs Onopiti Oringi, of Murlwai.