ACCIDENt AT THE WAIHI GOLDMINE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON: REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF MINERS WHEN A CAGE FELL SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN No. 2 SHAFT The Waihi goldmine, showing No. 2 shaft in the centre background. Twelve men were being lowered down the shaft when the cage in which they were descending broke away and fell several hundred feet before coming to rest juat above the No. 13 level and about 1400 feet below the surface. They were rescued with difficulty, all being injured but none seriously. f
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21554, 27 July 1933, Page 6
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85ACCIDENt AT THE WAIHI GOLDMINE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON: REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF MINERS WHEN A CAGE FELL SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET IN No. 2 SHAFT The Waihi goldmine, showing No. 2 shaft in the centre background. Twelve men were being lowered down the shaft when the cage in which they were descending broke away and fell several hundred feet before coming to rest juat above the No. 13 level and about 1400 feet below the surface. They were rescued with difficulty, all being injured but none seriously. f New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21554, 27 July 1933, Page 6
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