HUNTLY MINE DISASTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 September 1914, Page 4

HUNTLY MINE DISASTER.

Worship the Mayor is calling a + + i! ng«° r 8 ? cl£ ck on Monday ni|ht, !at the Borough- Chambers, to consider the question of assistance to those who have been left m destitute or painfuMy straitened circumstances through" the^ Jiuntly mine disaster, which took place on Saturday, the 12th instant. Forty- , three men lost their lives on the occasion, and several were more or less seri<>usly injured. One of the men killed * leaves seven motherless children, and another four. One leaves a widow but no children; three leave widow*: ! and grown-up families, and.one widoweris survived by a grow-up family. About twenty of the killed leave widows witl from seven children to one child. Four i not eligible for the widows' pension. Al-- * together, there is much that will have •• to be done to provide humanely for those who have been so tragically left m destitute or very straitened circumstances and the meeting called bv'the Mayor for Monday night will no> doubt- . .bo well attended by citizens willing tc " assist m the practical attainment of: the end m -view.