MINING TRAGEDY
TWO MEN KILLED AT OHAI
CAUGHT BY HEAVY FALL OF COAL
[Per United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, March 3.
A double mining fatality occurred at the Winton coal mine at Ohai shortly after 11 o’clock this morning when two experienced miners, Peter Johnstone, aged 50, married, with 10 children, one of whom is married, and Thomas Thomsen, about 38, married, with one child, lost their lives through a heavy fall of coal.
The bodies were recovered half an hour later, but it was evident that both were killed instantly. An inspector of the Mines Department, Mr J. Hughes, had, a few minutes before the fall, passed through the working. -Evening Star, 3/3/1937.
R.S.A.
ALL Returned Soldiers are requested to attend the funeral .of No. 302969 Private Peter Johnstone, late Imperial Forces, at Ohai, on March 6th. Parade at 9.30.
R. COLQUHOUN, Secretary. -Southland Times, 5/3/1937.
THANKS.
MRS PETER JOHNSTONE and FAMILY, Ohai, wish to sincerely thank relatives and friends for the kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes received in their recent sad bereavement. -Southland Times, 16/3/1937.
MINER KILLED BY FALL OF COAL
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL. Oct. 1. A fatal accident occurred yesterday in the State-owned Star mine at Ohai when a man was killed by a fall of coal. He was Mr. John Johnstone, aged 22. -Gisborne Herald, 1/10/1948.
When killed last Thursday in a colliery at Ohai, John Johnstone, aged 22, met death in the same manner as his father, who eleven years ago was in the Linton mine killed also by a fall of coal. -Grey River Argus, 5/10/1948.
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