MAN COLLAPSES IN RAILCAR
(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH. January 20. Thomas Graham, a retired stonemason, of Mosgiel, married, aged 71, died suddenly when he was travelling from Stillwater to Ikamatua this afternoon on the Greymouth-Westport railcar. It is understood that Mr Graham had a seizure when the rail-car was pulling away from the Stillwater station.
Mr Graham was going to the home of his married daughter, Mrs William Blackie, at Ikamatua. to’spend a holiday. He had arrived at Stillwater only a few minutes earlier on the Christ-church-Greymouth express.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26944, 21 January 1953, Page 10
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