GANGER KILLED
COLLISION BETWEEN JIGGER AND TRAIN. TWO OTHER MEN INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TAURANGA, March 3. Three railway employees were injured. one of them fatally, when a motorjigger on which they were returning from their work collided with a special shunting train between Otumoetai and Te Puna, on the Tauranga line, late yesterday afternoon. v " The victims were: — Dead: Ernest Samuel Jackson, ganger, aged 52, Tauranga: head injuries and fracture of both legs and right arm. Injured: Alfred Williams, surfaceman, Tauranga; abrasions and shock. Henry Wenzlick, surfaceman, Tauranga; leg injury. The accident happened shortly after b o’clock. The three men had been working down the line and were about a mile on the Tauranga side of Te Puna when the collision occurred. Mr Jackson and Mr Wenzlick were taken to the Tauranga Hospital. Mr Jackson. who was a married man with five children, died at 9.15 p.m.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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148GANGER KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 7
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