On October 20 Fred Hackett, a miner working on a prospecting “show” about six miles from Burbanks, Western Australia, was hauling a bucket of ore with a windlass, and had lifted one hand from the handle of the windlass, when the bucket caught in the shaft timbering. The windlass “got away” in reverse, the handle striking him a downward blow in the face, which broke his nose. Despite the blow, Hackett seized the windlass, and stopped the bucket from falling down the shaft on his mate, Hector Spaven,
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1934, Page 7
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