FORTUNATE ESCAPE.
JIGGER STRUCK BY TRAIN. (PRESS ASSOCIATION Tgi.EOKAM.) TAURAXGA, I)ecem!>vr 30. While proceeding from Tauranga to T© Puna to-night on a railway jigger, Mr McCann, Inspector of Fermanent Way here, with Mr Humphreys, a clerk in the District Railway Engineer's office, Auckland, and Humphreys' child, came suddenly on the Tan rnnga express. They managed to get clear, but the train knocked the jigger on top of Humphreys, w>N) suffered injuries to the head and a knee and a fractured Wrist. The others escaped unhurt.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19815, 31 December 1929, Page 8
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