RAILWAYMAN KILLED,
ENGINE AND JIGGER
COLLIDE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
"WAIPUKURAU, This Day.
A fatal railway accident occurred at 8 o 'clock on Saturday night, when, a jigger on which Edward John Groves, of Takapau; a surfaceman, aged 31, was travelling, was struck by an engine near Marakeke, eight miles south of WaipukuTau.
The engine was travelling tender first and was fully lit with a lamp on the front, and the. first intimation the driver had was a peculiar grinding on the rails. He saw an object at the side of the track, and then stopped promptly. Together -with the fireman he searched about the engine and line, and found the outrigger wheel of a jigger, and further back along the line an unconscious man, who was conveyed to the "Waipukurau Hospital suffering from a fracture at the base of the skull. He succumbed to his injuries early yesterday morning.
Groves was a single man with relatives in "Wellington.
An inquest for identification purposes was held this morning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 9
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