QUARRYMAN'S DEATH
PREMATURE EXPLOSION
Severely injured through a premature explosion of gelignite in the quarry at Opahi at mid-day on Wednesday, Henry Graydon Wright, aged 56, later died at the Kawakawa Hospital, states a correspondent in today's "New Zealand Herald." Mr. Wright, who was employed as a quarryman by the Bay of Islands County Council, was tamping gelignite into holes "76 feet up the face of the quarry when the explosion occurred. He was flung off the ledge where he was working and fell to the base of the cliff, suffering severe head and body injuries. '
Mr. Wright was being assisted by'a Maori, Mick Pomare, and had just called to him to lend assistance. Together they continued tamping the gelignite into one of the holes when the charge exploded into Mr. Wright's face. Mr. Pomare was flung down on to the ledge, but was not injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 1, 1 July 1938, Page 10
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