SHUNTER KILLED
Christchurch Accident (By Telegraph.—Press Association.i t'HHISTCHITtCH. July 5. George Alexander Anderson, ngeil 3!), a shunter employed by the Knilwiiys De- _ partment, was killed at Christchurch station about 3.30 this afternoon. IL; was swept off a moving train by another rake of trucks, being pinned under u earriage. The removal of the body from under the carriage took more than an hour. SHUNTER~INJURED AT AUCKLAND (I’y Tvlegrapli.—Press As^oclation j AUCKLAND. July A railway shunter way seriously injured when n large R.N.Z.A.P. lorry collided with the front of n railway ongiii'" in Quay Street louight. Tho injured rnan was Male f-urin, married, aged 40. of T’oi/soiiliy. Tlu> nccirlcut occurred when Ihe engine, about to enter lho railway goods yards, si ruck the lorry on the side, splintering the woodwork and damaging it. so that it had to be towed away. Mr. Curin was nne of three shunters standing on the front of the engine. The other two jumped clear.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 6
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