EXPECTED CERTAIN DEATH

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8496, 1 August 1933, Page 2

EXPECTED CERTAIN DEATH

MEN IN CAGE REALISED THEIR PLIGHT WAITED FOR THE END All the men in the cage when it broke away at about No. 5 level realised their plight immediately, said one of the party on Sunday. There was no panic, and they waited as the levels flashed by and brought them nearer to what seemed certain death. Theirs was an experience of not many seconds, yet they lived and suffered a lifetime; and the first concern when the cage was brought to a stop just above No. 13 level was for each man to do what best he could to lighten the lot of his felloAvs.

The men said they could not speak too highly of the work of tho rescuers, including their brother workers, the medical men and members of the Waihi branch of the St.John Ambulance Brigade. They also spoke of the wonderful work of the .natron, sisters and nursing staff of the Waihi hospital. Nothing, they said, had been too much trouble for them; they had done splendidly all within their power to make easier their plight.