CHILD KILLED
5struck by train ;f DISTRESSING FATALITY AT ] TE KOUTU RAILWAY ; crossing CAUGHT ON RAILS -5' % A most distressing level cross- • ing fatality occurred yesterday « afternoon when the Auckland- * Rotorua express, passing over the crossing by the Te Koutu railway » yards, struck a two and a-half * year old child, Colin Tupara " Dinsdale. The little,, boy, who J was:, the youngest son bf Mr and ^ Mrs ' Michael Dinsdale, oi Te * Koutu, was the last of a band of small children who had just cross- : - ed line and was apparently 'Z ' caught in the middle of the rails by the oncoming engine. ^ The express was immediately pulL ed up and the child was found lying * across the cattle-stop where it had been thrown by the impact. Th0 child was immediately placed in the'. train and brought to Rotorua, but it was dead when it arrived at King George V Hospital. The body waSv severely knocked about and the side; of the head crushed. The child had been playing with,' a number of companions and had just' left its home. The other children had crossed the line, but the small boy apparently loitered behind and' was caught by the train.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 October 1931, Page 3
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198CHILD KILLED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 October 1931, Page 3
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