STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE
RAILWAY PORTER KILLED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 17. Struck by a shunting engine at the Tawhiti Road level crossing near the Hawera Railway Station this afternoon, Robert Hugh Trask, aged 20, porter, a single man, was thrown against a cattle-stop pit and dragged across the road by the engine and killed. He was a son of Mr T. E. Trask, Eltham. When the accident occurred at about 1.30 p.m., Mr Trask had been on duty at the crossing for the arrival of a goods train from the south. It was passing him toward the station as he was struck by a locomotive .-travelling in the opposite direction on adjoining rails. It is believed Mr Trask was preparing to swing himself into the guard’s van of the goods train as it passed the cattle-stop.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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138STRUCK BY LOCOMOTIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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