MINER PARTLY BURIED
FALL OF COAL AND STONE PUKEMIRO COLLIERY MISHAP [from our own correspondent! HAMILTON, Tuesday Caught in a fall of coal and ston® when the roof erf a drive in which ha was working in the Pukemiro Colliery gave way to-day, Mr. 'Alexander Robertson, a miner, aged 39 years, wr;s partially buried. When he was extricated he was found to be suffering from injuries to the back. After he had been, taken to the Waikato Hospital it was stated that there was a possible fracture of ti\9 spine. An X-ray examination -will be made. His condition to-night was ro» ported to be fair.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 12
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