ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
ANOTHER TABLET FATALITY. 4 United Press Association. Wellington, December 10. A man named Frederick Spencer, a passenger on the Now Plymouth express, was fatally injured while the train was passing Manakau this evening. He apparently had his head out of a window, and the tablet exchange arm, after taking the tablet from the engine arid springing back, rebounded and struck Spencer a fearful blow ou the head. The man was removed to Otaki hospital, where he died an hour later. Spencer formerly lived at Petoue, and had lately been shearing up country.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 7, 11 December 1915, Page 3
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94ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 7, 11 December 1915, Page 3
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