THE WARONUI MINE AND RAILHEAD. An accident, attended by fatal consequences, occurred at the Bruce Railway and Coal Company’s mine at Waronui, about eight miles from Milton, when James Carruthers (mine manager) and Joseph Morris (miner) descended an air shaft connected with a new drive which is being put into the mine, and were suffocated by fire damp. Our photograph shows the locality of the mine, the place marked X indicates where the air shaft is located, and the insets are (left) the late Mr Carruthers and (right) the late Mr Morris.
THE FUNERAL CORTEGE NEARING FAIRFAX CEMETERY. Inset—THE AIR SHAFT DOWN WHICH THE MEN DESCENDED
MEMBERS OF THE MASONIC LODGE ARRIVING AT THE CEMETERY THROUGH LINES OF RETURNED SOLDIERS.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 39
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120THE WARONUI MINE AND RAILHEAD. An accident, attended by fatal consequences, occurred at the Bruce Railway and Coal Company’s mine at Waronui, about eight miles from Milton, when James Carruthers (mine manager) and Joseph Morris (miner) descended an air shaft connected with a new drive which is being put into the mine, and were suffocated by fire damp. Our photograph shows the locality of the mine, the place marked X indicates where the air shaft is located, and the insets are (left) the late Mr Carruthers and (right) the late Mr Morris. THE FUNERAL CORTEGE NEARING FAIRFAX CEMETERY. Inset—THE AIR SHAFT DOWN WHICH THE MEN DESCENDED MEMBERS OF THE MASONIC LODGE ARRIVING AT THE CEMETERY THROUGH LINES OF RETURNED SOLDIERS. Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 39
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