EXPLOSIVE STRUCK BY PICK
THREE MEN INJURED. CONDITION OF ONE SERIOUS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 24. A gelignite explosion occurred this afternoon at the Manuherika dam, near Otureliua, Central Otago, resulting in three men, Kenneth Cameron, John Scoles and John Pauley, all of Dunedin, being admitted to the Maniototo Hospital. Cameron is very severely injured. Scoles is suffering from deep cuts about the head and face and Pauley’s injuries are of a minor nature.
It is understood the men were working with picks over ground where a charge of gelignite had previously been laid and a pick came in contact with the explosive.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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104EXPLOSIVE STRUCK BY PICK Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 6
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