ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
(«T tCUUaAnt— PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) PALMERSTON N., 11th June. The body of a man named Thomas Pickard, aged seventy-five years, was found to-day in a drain at Kairanga, a distance of seven miles from the town. Deceased left his home in Palmerston to go to a picture show, but he seems to have wandered away to the place where his body -was found. DtTNEDIN, 11th June. George Neal, a shunter, married, living in M'Bride-street, South 1 Dunedin, was shunting in the railway yard, when his foot, it is thought, got caughtin the points. He was caught by the train and dragged some distance, being practically killed outright. WOODVILLE, 11th June. An elderly man named Alfred Symonds was run into by the 7 o'clock train to Palmerston to-night, and was killed outright. Symonds had been working all the day shifting coal at the gasworks, and waß going home along the railway line. The accident happened just outsids Woodvillc. The deceased was about sixty-five years of age, and leaves a ■widow and two daughters, both married. Against Accidents and Sickness insure with The Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., 117, and 121, Cus-tomhouse-quay, Wellington. — Advt.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1913, Page 3
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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1913, Page 3
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