ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
The Superintendent of Police, Wellington, received information that a man named William Robinson, aged seventy years, dropped dead at his residence in Upper Hutfc yesterday. An explosion of gelignite occurred in a tunnel at the Mcingahao hydro-electric works yesterday, Alexander Murdock, aged thirty-three years, being killed instantly. Michael Lynch received serious facial injuries, and will probably lose his sight. Murdock was married six weeks ago, and saw considerable service with the Tunnelling Corps at the war.
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Evening Star, Issue 17731, 4 August 1921, Page 7
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