AUSTRALIAN NEWS
ENTOMBED IN MINE
LIVES SAVED BY PUMP
BRISBANE, Dec. 15. ‘Tf pumping had been delayed another five minutes, 1. would probably have- boon drowned,” . said Alexander Lawrie, one of two men entombed at Ardarth mine), Lanefiejd, after his res T cue on, Saturday, following a fall oi €a “-Watcr. whs up to my mouth when the pump was restarted, and 1 had swallowed , a small quantity. Had it not been for the timber which, relieved the weight of the, fall, both McGregor and I must lmvo been crushed to death immediately.
SCOO FOWLS DIE
MELBOURNE., Dec. 17. About SGOO head of poultry ’have died in ' the' last. few . days at three poultry farms' in' the Heatherton DaiidenohE find Cheltenham districts, Se outbreaks of Newcastle disease have occurred. , .' ■•. ■ This disease was previously heard of in England, at Newcastle-on-JNme-,. f-Si and in Java in 1927, where many thousands of birds were / lost.' It is thought that the germs ..may have been carried to Australia- by birds imported'from England or Maya, • So .seriously -does the Department of Agiiculture,, .regard, - the,, epidemic that it is arranging ,to compulsonly quarantine affected yards.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 2
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