BOY'S DEATH AT WHAKATU
(Special to the "Evening' Post.") NAPIER, This Day.
Expressing the view that evidently the boy did not hear the whistle or mistook it for one of the freezing works, shunting engines, the Coroner, Mr. Miller, yesterday returned a verdict after an inquest that Cameron Smith, aged 11. met his death by misadventure when he was run over by a train on the main line at Whakatu on January 31. The driver of the train, William Johnson, Napier, said that on coming off a bridge he noticed the boy about 70 yards away. The boy was walking on one rail, balancing himself with a long stick. Johnson gave a blast of the whistle, but the boy took no notice. Johnson pulled up within a train length. '» ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 9
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