ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
MUTILATED ON THE RAILWAY. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Hokitfka, Last Night. _ A fatal accident occurred on the Hold-tika-Ross railway this afternoon. When leaving Manonui station, Richard Harding, aged 67, a passenger from Holdtika, who had got out, attempted to get o«t the moving train, and was dragged between the carriages and shockingly mutilated, death being instantaneous. He was a widower, and had been working at the Rautapu sawmill. He leaves a grown up family residing at Timatu, and two danghters at the Bluff.
FALL OVER A CLIFF. Gisborne, Last Night, Information was received by the police this afternoon that Robert Walker, a single man, aged 32 years, employed aa station hand at Waipaoa station, fell 1 over a cliff and was killed. No details are yet to hand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1919, Page 5
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