KILLED IN SHAFT
TRAGIC FATE OF TWO MINERS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, July 25. Two miners, Claude Bater, aged 32, and Stanley Gregory, aged 22, who were working in an old shaft at Myrtleford, were killed when the shaft collapsed and buried them beneath 12 tons of rubble and earth. The tragedy occurred on Monday afternoon and they were discovered missing on Tuesday morning. The bodies were recovered late last night.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 9
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73KILLED IN SHAFT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 9
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