BODY RECOVERED.
MINERS’ LONG STRUGGLE. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 29. Working with almost complete disregard for the danger of their position, the miners at Rotowaro coalmine, near Huntly, succeeded in recovering the body of John Yates at about seven o’clock to-night. In three shifts they h&d been tunnelling into a huge wall of debris for about 30 hours. With a fellow-worker Thomas Hart, Yates was buried by heavy falls of stone in a section of the mine shortly before one o’clock on Monday afternoon. Although it was known that he could not have survived, volunteers exerted every effort to find his body.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD19300430.2.29
Bibliographic details
Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 8
Word Count
103BODY RECOVERED. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18555, 30 April 1930, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Timaru Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.