FATALITY AT KAIWAKA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 239, 22 September 1922, Page 4

FATALITY AT KAIWAKA.

FALL OF EARTH. A fatal accident occurred at the Public Works camp at Kaiwaka about 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, a man named Archibald John Stanley Thomson being killed by a fall of earth. Deceased and throe mates, A. Pul!nr, F. Chapman and W. Finlinson, were engaged in undermining the face of a cliff and at the time of the accident) had cut into the face of the cliff about a foot. Deceased had filled his barrow, and was in the aet of turning to wheel the load away, when the face fell suddenly, crushing him. The other men just escaped as the earth fell, burying their shovels and wheelbarrows. They immediately net to work to extricate their unfortunate mate, who was dead when found. The spot where the men were wfirking is some six or seven miles from Wallace’s crossing, where the main camp is situated ,and the body had to be conveyed over rough country on an improvised stretcher. The body was subsequently brought into the Napier morgue, where formal evidence of identification was taken this morning, and the inquest adjourned for a week. Deceased, who was 45 years of age, leaves a widow and three children.