Chair-rope Breaks Over River
TWO MINERS DROWNED, ONE INJURED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Aug. 21. Precipitated 00 feet into the Molyneux River when the ropo of the chair in which they were crossing broke, two miners, Trevor Gilbert and Thomas King, each aged 25, both of.Timaru, were drowned yesterday. A third, Ernest Nixon, was rescued, and is now in the Clyde Hospital with a leg injury. The party had been working on a miners’ subsidy near Clyde recently. They then began using a private chair owned by an orchardist and unused for six years. Tho owner had padlocked the chair, but the pin was removed and the chair put in use, so as to avoid a three-mile walk round to the opposite bank. The chair was directly over tho Gorge when the crash occurred. Nixon retained his grip of the rope, and was hauled out after 15 minutes in the icecold water.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 8
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