ACCIDENTS
CHILD KILLED AT REEFTON STATION Graham Broadlfey, the two and a half-year-old son of Mr and Mrs J. Broadley, overbalanced on the edge of the railway platform at Reefton yesterday morning and fell under a moving railway waggon. The waggon passed over him and he was killed instantly. Mr Broadley, who is a member of the railway maintenance staff at Reefton, was at the station with the child, who ran out of the station office to the platform and fell over the edge. An inquest into the child’s death was opened at Reefton yesterday, before the Coroner (Mr W. B. Auld), and was adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been given.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25134, 15 March 1947, Page 8
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