RATANA TRAIN WRECK ANNIVERSARY
One Injured Passenger Still In Hospital
Dominion Special Service. WANGANUI, March 26. Today was the first anniversary of the Ratana train tragedy, when a New Plymouth-bound excursion from Wellington, carrying about 200 holi-day-makers, left the rails about 20 miles south of Wanganui. Tn the wreckage of the train were four bodies and two other people died later in hospital. The injured totalled 40, of whom 13 were admitted to hospital; one is, still in Wanganui Hospital, though it is expected'that he will be discharged in the near future. He is Mr. J. D. Gardiner, Caius Avenue, Gonville., '
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 11
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101RATANA TRAIN WRECK ANNIVERSARY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 11
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