KOPUAWHARA TRAGEDY
MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS The Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser. is to take the earliest opportunity of discussing with the Minister of PublicWorks, Mr R. Semplo, the erection of kerbing and headstones to mark the graves of seven of the victims of the Kopuawhara tragedy. This information has been received by the Wairoa Borough Council in reply to a letter inquiring what was intended by way of a memorial,
Twenty-one lives were lost on February 19, 1938, when, following a cloudburst, a mountain stream became a raging torrent and overwhelmed a public works camp on the east coast railway construction scheme at Kopuawhara. 35 miles north of Wairoa.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 8
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