RAILWAY TRAGEDY.
ELDERLY MAN KTT.T.r.n
<Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDTN, Tuesday
A fatality occurred on the Otago Central railway line this afternoon when Mr. Henry Priteliard. aged 74. a retired Harbour Board employee, who lived at Carey's Bay, Port Chalmers, fell from the Croniwell-Dunedin express, receiving extensive injuries.
The accident took place about 2.40 p.m., when the train was passing Matarae, Mr. Priteliard apparently falling from the carriage platform. He was accompanied by his son and daughter, and was seen on the platform a few minutes before he was missed
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1937, Page 10
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89RAILWAY TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1937, Page 10
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