TWO MINERS KILLED

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 15 April 1932, Page 4

TWO MINERS KILLED

BURIED BY COAL FALL AT NIGHTCAPS. Two lives were lost on Wednesday morning as a result of an extensive fall of coal in the Black Diamond mine at Nightcaps about 9.30 a.m. The dead arc Robert W. Duncan, mine manager, aged 40, and married with three ehil-

drcn, ami J. Nutter, a miner aged 39, married with four children. It was pure luck that Arthur Tinker, a director who lives at Nightcaps and works at the mine, was not caught in the fall, as he regularly accompanied the mine manager on his visits to the shaft. That morning he happened to bo assisting in another part of the mine and so was not in the danger zone. The Black Diamond mine has always been considered a very safe one. Mr. Duncan’s family has been unfortunate in its connection with coal mining, since his brother-in-law, the late Mr. 'T. Dixon, was killed in an accident in the ‘Wairaki mine last June, and his father was the victim of a mine fatality at Nightcaps in 1007.