RAILWAY YARDS FATALITY
EMPLOYEE KILLED. RUN OVER BY ENGINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 8. A railway employee was killed in the Stratford railway yards this afternoon when he was struck by a shunting engine as he was oiling points. He was William George Henry Lambert Wilson, aged 56, married, of Stratford. Mr Wilson was knocked down by the cow-catcher of the locomotive, which passed over him. Death was instantaneous.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1943, Page 3
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