ENGINEDRIVER KILLED
FALL WHILE SHUNTING CRUSHED BY MOVING TRUCKS Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. The driver of the train from Stratford to Tahora, Mr. H. W. Kelly, aged 49, was killed at the Tahora railway station at seven o’clock this evening. Mr. Kelly was assisting with the shunting in the yard and was riding on the first truck of four attached to an engine that was being backed. Apparently he slipped off the brake and fell. The four trucks and the engine passed over him. Mr. Kelly, who was a resident of Whangamomona, halfway between Stratford and Ohura, was a married man with six children. He had only four years to service before his retirement.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 16
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115ENGINEDRIVER KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 16
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