ROPE ROAD TRAGEDY
TWO CHILDREN KILLED KNOCKED DOWN BY MINE-SKIPS [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 17. Two Maori children were killed at Waikokowai, near Huntly, to-day, when they were knocked down by mine-skips on the rope road from the Macdonald coal mine. The victims were Dorothy Rawiri.’aged two, and Nganaro Aterangi Riwiri, a boy aged two. The children were cousins. The Maori settlement is only a few chains away from the rope road which was working at the time conveying loaded skips from the mine, and the parents of the hoy lost sight of the children for about five minutes. A relative saw thorn climbing on to the rope road, but before she could reach the scene to stop them the boy was knocked down by two loaded skips, which passed over him. He was dragged a distance of about 30ft and death was instantaneous. The relative arrived in time to pull the girl away as one of the skips passed over her liand, which was partly severed. She was taken to the Waikato Hospital, where she died this afternoon.
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Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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181ROPE ROAD TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 23863, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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