BLASTING ACCIDENT
FURTHER DETAILS. .VICTIM IDENTIFIED. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The name of the man hilled during blasting operations at Bobbie’s Pass Road is John Hubber, aged 53, a widower. Another man, John Daly, was struck on the hip by a stone at the same time, but was only bruised. The men received due warning of the blast. The force of the explosion was shown toy the fact that Hubber was 80 yards away from the place where the charge of gelignite was inserted. A fairly large piece of rock struck “him on the body and, it is thought, ruptured his livery haemorrhage setting in. He died in an hour and a half after he was struck. He was dead by the time a doctor arrived from Lyttelton.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1929, Page 6
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130BLASTING ACCIDENT Northern Advocate, 19 August 1929, Page 6
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