Two Men Killed

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 7

Two Men Killed

Fall of Earth Near Cromwell NO WITNESS TO TRAGEDY Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Last Night. ! A fall of earth m an excavation about 11 miles north of Cromwell resulted in the death this morning of two men who were employed preparing a site for an elevator. The victims were Alexander O’Rourke, aged 00 years, labourer, of llawea Flat, and Dougald Robertson, aged 22 years, single, labourer, of llawea Flat. * The men who were employed by Mr. W. Smith, contractor, of Pembroke, were engage! in constructing a gravel elevator at a claim owned by Mr Smith. The owner visited the .lain at about 11 o’clock and found that the bank above Ihe site of the elevat *is«{ caved in. He could sec n'-' ing of tne two men and, suspecting that they bright have been trapped by a fall, immediately commenced a search which disclosed the bodies buried under a iargo quantity of earth. Dr. Austin, of Cromwell, was immediately summoned, but he could only pronounce life extinct. Divorce Court and that was often the result of private enterprise. (Laugh- | ter.) Continuing, Air. Roberts said that underlying the whole of the Government’s policy was national self-reliance; national stability and national security. Was it national self-reliance, he asked, to borrow huge sums overseas and mortgage the country to overseas interests? 1 Was it self-reliance to allow farmers to 1 be mortgaged up to the hilt to the banks and similar institutions? He then , went on to deal with the recent Empire Producers’ Conference in Sydney and , said the lesson to be learned from that i conference was that the future Governments of Great Britain and New Zealand would have a final word in the 1 control of exports and imports. Deal--1 ing with the compensated price scheme Air. Roberts said the loader of the Oppo--1 sitiou proposed to restore tho free mar- ■ keting principle for dairy produce. He did not think that Air. Hamilton was very happy about that particular plank in his party’s platform. Air. Roberts proceeded to contrast the difference between the guaranteed and compensate I 1 prices, stating that he thought it better for the farmers to be anchored to a 1 system such as the guaranteed price [ over which they had some control rather than the compensated price over which they had no whatever. In conclusion, ho said, the Labour Government was nut only turning a new page but was writing a fresh chapter in ’ the history of the Dominion.' I The debate was adjourned ou the , motion of the leader of the Opposition [ and the House rose at 9.50 p.m.