FOUND DEAD
Colin Reid, aged about 65, residing at .Melling, and thought to be a labourer, was found dead a few feet from the railway line near Melling Station just before 8 o'clock this morning. It was at first thought that he had been knocked down by the Masterton express, but as there wore no marks of injury i; was surmised that he had had a seizure. The body was placed on board a passing train* and brought to Wellington.
The Out Patients' Department of the "Wellington Hospital Board will be closed all day to-morrow (the King's Birthday). Urgent cases may be treated at the main entrance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11
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107FOUND DEAD Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 127, 2 June 1927, Page 11
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