WORKMEN CAUGHT IN FALL OF ROCK
One Killed, One Injured ACCIDENT ON HAYWARDS HILL ROAD One man was killed and another extensively injured yesterday when a face of» rock was being prepared for blasting at Haywards Hill, Hutt Valley, Wellington. Ernest William Tucker, a married man with one child, aged 27. who lived at Wainui-o-Mata, was fatally injured. J. Lamb, Mandalay Terrace, Khandallah, received lacerated wounds to his face, arms! hands, legs, and injuries to his back and chest. He was taken to tlie Wellington Hospital by the Free Ambulance suffering from shock. At a late hour last night his condition was stated to be satisfac- | tory. The accident occurred at 11.20 a.m.. when a section of the rock face being prepared for blasting, fell before the charge exploded. The work on the road is being done by the Public Works | Department, and is part of a scheme to widen the road from the Hutt Valley to Pahautanui. Tucker's body was completely covered by the fragments and more than an hour was spent in moving the debris before it could be extricated
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 12
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182WORKMEN CAUGHT IN FALL OF ROCK Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 12
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