RAILWAY PORTER KILLED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 136, 20 March 1948, Page 5

RAILWAY PORTER KILLED

ACCIDENT WHILE SHUNTING (P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 19. Fatal injuries were suffered by a railway porter while shunting trucks at Newmarket railway station this afternoon. lie was Samuel R. Gurney, age|d 58. married, of Sandringham. Gurney Avas. standing on the coaveatcher of a shunting engine, • and stepped back into the path of an incoming Papakura train on the next line. He received injuries to the skull, arms find legs, and Avas taken to hospital. Avhere he died later. YOUNG MAN KILLED THROAT CUT IN MOTOR ACCIDENT (P.A.) TAUMARUNUI, March 19. When a jeep driven by lan Noak hit a water-table near Matiere at 7 o’clock last night, OAven Terence McGovern, aged 23, single, Avas thrown through the windscreen. He received a severe gash in the, throat ancl died later at Ohura. DEATH OF SHIP’S ,COOK BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. March 19. • The body of James A. Notley. aged 25 years, a ship’s cook, Avho fell into the sea while climbing from the side of the overseas ship Highland Prince at No. 3 wharf on March 6. was recovered by the police to-daj. The body was floating in the outer harbour near (lie reclamation mole.