CAUGHT BY TRAIN
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LITTt-E GIRLS R[JL.|L.pp CHILDREN CROSSING RAILWAY : BRIDpE HURLJED' TO i'lv £v " r 5- W i'f- & — .. ■ y'p* J ■ NO CHANGE OF ES.CAPE
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Paimerffpji ^ Tuesday. A distressing f.atality involving t^ie lives of two children, Erances Mason, aged 11, daughter of Mr. T. ])Ias.on, of Kakariki, and Molly Camplin, aged 4, daughter of Mr. J. L. Cam'plin, Waituna, occurred at Kakariki' today. The children, who were cousins, were caught on a hridge which, like many ojther short railway structures of this type, is undec'ked and jj.pt used for pedestrian tpaffic of any kind. It is about 20 feet .aboy.e a stream and the children had no hope of escape with a train coming on them so suddenly, unless they attempted to jump po the ground' below. They were unable to save themselves and met instantaneous death.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 5
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142CAUGHT BY TRAIN Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 5
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