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EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY By Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, June 23 A verdict that John Oscar Bovey, chemical manure works labourer, of Wanganui, died at Kempthome Prosser and Company’s works at Aramoho on April 23 last as a result of injuries suffered when working on the sulphur elevator, the cause of death being asphyxia from sulphur dioxide gas, was returned by the Coroner, Mr S. M. Dixon, to-day. The inquiry was conducted as a result of a fire at the works on the date in question, when Bovey and several other men were engaged in work attendant upon the unloading of sulphur from trucks by means of an elevator. The evidence of the men working with Bovey in the elevator compartment was that in replacing the belt on the pulley the elevator ran back and a spark was created which ignited the sulphur dust.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 8
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144FATAL EXPLOSION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 8
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