RAILWAY FATALITY
PASSENGER FATALLY LSJUK-
ED AT lIALCOAIBE
As the result of tile tablet receiving apparatus at the iialcombe station swinging bank two passengers on the .Main Trunk express yesterday morning, met with injuries, Roller! Grant, an immigrant, who hud-arrived by the Suffolk at Auckland on Friday, and who was pro- ■ ceding to the Kaiapoi woollen mills, sustained severe injuries to l lie head and a fractured skull, while Thomas Noble suffered several head lacerations. Botli men were attended lo by an Auckland, doctor, who was on board the train, and at Palmerston N. Grant, who was unconscious, was removed to the hospital, where he subsequently died. A railway clerk, Air Joseph Rosoiiian, was on the Haleombe platform near the tablet exchange when the accident occurred and he was struck in the bead with either the swinging arm or by another part of the tablet. It is not known what his injuries were but be was bleeding profusely from a scalp wound and received attention at the Holcombe Hotel.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2683, 15 January 1924, Page 2
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169RAILWAY FATALITY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2683, 15 January 1924, Page 2
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