TUNNEL ACCIDENT
CHINAMAN FATALLY INJURES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 22. _ Chinaman waa knocked down in one of the tunnels near Paekakariki at 4 o’clock this morning by a goods train from Wellington, and sustained injuries to which he later succumbed. The unfortunate man was placed on another train at Paekakariki and was brought back to Wellington. At Jobnsonville ho was examined by a doctor, and when„the train arrived at Wellington ba was conveyed in a waiting ambulance to the hospital. He was admitted to the hospital suffering from injuries to his head and body and died about Half_ an hour later. The victim has been identified ns Ngan Lie, an Otaki gardener, aged sixty-six, single.
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Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 2
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117TUNNEL ACCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 2
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