TUNNEL COLLAPSE
All Bodies Now Recovered
(N.Z. Press Association)
HAMILTON. March 20.
The bodies of all four victims of the Kaimai tunnel disaster have now been recovered.
Rescue workers recovered the remaining two bodies yes-: terday afternoon. They were Alfred Thomas Leighton, aged 25, married, with two children, of Matamata. and Peter James Clarkson, aged 18, single, the son of Mr I and Mrs P. Clarkson, of Tirau.
Funeral arrangements for Mr Clarkson are not yet known. Mr Leighton will be buried at Matamata cemetery tomorrow.
The body of another tunnel victim, Donald Alexander McGregor, aged 31, of Robertson, New South Wales, will be cre-| mated tomorrow and the ashes flown to his home town. The District Commissioner of Works in Hamilton (Mr R. E. Hermans), said today that what was left of the tunnel would be cleaned up and made perfectly safe.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32252, 21 March 1970, Page 12
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