A TRAMWAY ACCIDENT.
BOY FATALLY INJURED. (HY TKI.WJRAI'H.—I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] Taumarunui, This Day. Two boys, aged four years and 19 months respectively, sons of J. Belcher, of Pukeweka sawmill, near Taumarunui, were walking on the tram line when the locomotive rounded a bend on the down grade. One boy was knocked clear of the line, but the younger was run over and had an arm and a leg severed. The child subsequently died in the hospital.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 433, 24 January 1912, Page 5
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75A TRAMWAY ACCIDENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 433, 24 January 1912, Page 5
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