BURIED BY SLIPS

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 October 1933, Page 10

BURIED BY SLIPS

Akatarawa Road Fatality DEATH OF WORKMAN Partly Extricated by Mates After being partly extricated from beneath one slip that had come down on him on the Akatarawa Road yesterday afternoon, a relief worker was caught by a second fall of earth and was completely buried. Rescue effort# were unavailing.. The victim of the accident was Mr. Ronald Norling, 125 Kelburn Parade, aged 22, single. The accident occurred about 10 miles north of Upper Hutt, and. on the eastern side of the road, which Mr. Norling and two companions from the Akatarawa camp were widening. The party was working at the foot of a steep embankment, which is covered in scrub and gorse, on a formation of loose rubble and earth. Without any warning a slip came down. Mr. Norling’s two companions managed to evade the falling material, but he was not so fortunate. , His work mates tried to get him out from beneath the spoil, and bad nearly succeeded when a second , slip came down niid completely buried him. To extricate Mr. Norling at that stage was an impossible task for two men, and they returned to the camp, where they secured the services of every available man, but it was only after three-quarters of an hour’s labour that the body was brought out.