WORKMAN KILLED
RUN OVER BY TRUCKS
(By Telegraph--I'res<? Association)
BLENHEIM, This Day.
The first fatal accident on the South Island Main Trunk railway construction works occurred yesterday afternoon when Augustus Osca Cottington, a labourer, aged 48, married, of Blenheim, was killed instantly by being run over by a rake of trucks conveying spoil from the tunnel at Ohau Bluff to the tip on the seashore. Cottington was engaged in repairing the rail track and the noise of an air compressor in the vicinity prevented him from hearing the approaching trucks. The body, which was badly mutilated, was removed to Kaikoura.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 15, 17 July 1937, Page 10
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