ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
- ■■ [PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 WELLINGTON, to-day. . J -Win. King was found near the railway line about a mile south of Hayward's on Sunday morning. At the inquest to-day it was stated deceased was unmarried and 28 years of. age. The evidence pointed to the j fact, that deceased ' (who, one witness said, had. on--- Saturday- night been slightly uixdeivthe influence of liquor) had sat down on one of the sleepers, and was struck by an engine of a passing train. A verdict of accidental death was returned. GISBORNE, to-day. Two fatalities are reported from Ruakituri station. A man named Victor Berg was killed whilst .bushfalling, and a Maori boy was drowned in the Ruakituri river. I WANGANUI,- to-day. A casual railway hand, Alex. Macl^ay, 40, was killed this afternoon at j the railway yard. He did not see ' some trucks being shunted towards him, and was killed^ instantly. I '■
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 8
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151ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 280, 31 May 1909, Page 8
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