ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
RAILWAY PORTER KILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, April 19. While engaged in shunting operations at Ngahauranga this morning, a porter named Frank Hampton, 20 years of age and single, was knocked over by an engine and received severe injuries to his head and leg. Later. Hampton succumbed to his injuries at 1.15. DEATH FROM A FALL. Pahiatua, April 19. Albert Exley, a single roan, aged 63. of Pongaroa, spent Monday in Makuri. Returning home in the evening Exley left the buggy he was driving, in which were some children, went to the side of the road and evidently fell over a bank. Others of the same party discovered him about 50 feet down with a. broken neck. At the inquest last night at Pongaroa the verdict was accidental death through falling over a bank and dislocating his neck.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1922, Page 8
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141ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1922, Page 8
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