ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
RAILWAY GANGER’S DEATH
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MAR TON, January 16,
Standing aside to allow a mixed train to pa.is near Great ford on Saturday afternoon, a railway ganger, Alexandct .Robert Led'inghnm, aged 57, married, was noticed by his 'mate to tall forward, his head striking a truck. " Loclihgham was placed' in a guard’s van, 'arid removed to a private hospital at Mavtou .where death - ( .aisued yestcidav. - ;
KILLED BY SHOT GUN. TE KUITI, January 16. Oswald Campbell Johnstone, aged 21,'’tlie-son' of a well-known farmer at Pio Pio, was found dead from a gunshot wound in. his cherst. Deceased left koine to shoot, hawks,; and, liis mothei becoming anxious, a search was made and the body found on one side a "fence and the gun on "the other, half a mile from his home. .... Tlie gun had; eyldyy when being drawn through the fence. At the inquest- -a verdict ,cf accidental death was returned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1933, Page 6
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