CHILD KILLED
IN RAILWAY YARD. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Dec. 8. A distressing fatality occurred at the Centre Bush railway station yesterday afternoon when Ronald George Whelan, the two-year-old son of a railway porter stationed there, received fatal injuries through being run over by a truck in the station yard. The deceased, with his two elder brothers, was playing in the yard while his father and two other men were engaged in moving some loaded trucks. One was allowed to go free, and they wore about to push other trucks in the same direction when one of the elder boys called out that Ronald was under the truck. The deceased was discovered with a truck wheel over the lower portion of liis body. Medical aid was summoned, but tho hoy died shortly afterwards. An inquest is being held this afternoon.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 1
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