RAILWAY WORKER KILLED.
STRUCK BY TALL, OF PAPA. MATES' JOURNEY IN VAIN. ■' . (By Telegraph.—Own, Corresuondent.) STRATFORD, this day. A middle-aged man, William O'Connor, was killed by a fall of papa rock at the east end of No. 3. tunnel on the Taranaki-Auckland railway construction works; near Tangarakau, last evening. His mates carried him a long distance over the hill to Mangabne. He was conscious all the way, but he expired on his arrival. He had been : -workings on the job for years, and had no relatives in the Dominion, '"'' ' ['
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 7
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89RAILWAY WORKER KILLED. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 221, 18 September 1929, Page 7
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