TRAPPED IN WELL
OVERCOME BY FUMES (P.A.) MASTERTON, March 6. Mr John Malnedk, Martinborough, was yesterday trapped at the bottom of a 125 ft well ho was boring on Mr Percy Cooper’s property at Waimana. Strenuous efforts were made for some hours to rescue him. Superintendent Clark, of the Masterton Fire Brigade, was let down the well, but became jammed, and was raised with difficulty in an exhausted condition. Malneck was given up for dead, but revived, and communication with him was established at 11.20 p.m.. and he was brought to the top. He had been overcome by Tumes and-lost; consciousness, hut is hone the worse for his experience. i
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Evening Star, Issue 24137, 6 March 1942, Page 2
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110TRAPPED IN WELL Evening Star, Issue 24137, 6 March 1942, Page 2
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