Accidents and Fatalities.
Per Press Association,
ASHBURTON, July 24: While .working in a Shingle pit at Wakanui to-day, James Dwyer was killed through the sides of the pit caving in and a fall of debris burying him. A rescue party was quickly at work, but although only a quarter of an hour elapsed before the shingle was cleared away, lifa .was extinct when the man was disinterred.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8145, 25 July 1906, Page 6
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