MERCER.
(See also paga 1.) During shunting operations in th< Mercer railway station yard 01 j Thursday morning last preparatory to the departure of the 6.35 a.m train for Auckland, a passenger car riage ran on to a truck which wa* loaded with a painter's cott9ge, th( painter himself being asleep within. By force of the impact the truck moved off, and collided with a cement stop-block weighing about a • ton, which it pushed cut of plane, but came to a stop on top of the block. The framework of the carriage was considerably damaged, but the painter and his building were none the worse for the experience A gang of railway labourers duly replaced the truck on the railway lino again.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 231, 1 December 1916, Page 3
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