ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
DEATH ON A TRAIN. (Bv Telegraph—Pr*»s* Association.i DUNEDIN, Oct. 30. While travelling from Port Chalmers to Dunedin by train at about 8.45 this morning, Valentine Charles Parker, coxswain on the pilot launch at Port Chalmers, died suddely. He was a married man 43 years of. age with five chil(lren. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time and had been undergoing treatment. It i® thought the cause of death was heart failure. A CYCLIST KILLED. OAMARtU. Oct. 31. ' Walter Vernon Metcalfe, a joiner, acred 40. a married man with two children, while turning a sharp corner on Wharf ami Itchen Streets on a. cycle, lost* control and clashed into a fencing post. He ay a s killed instantly. business notices. Messrs Tlios. Bortliwick and Sous, Ltd. advertise their November receiving dates for pigs, in this issue. •Mess-re W. J. Clanngbold and Co. announce in this issue the _ a nival Oi. the “750” Harlev motor-cycle's; : J C. ‘ Smith advertises, ■paftieuila.m of his ' mart sale for to-morow afternoon -.<■ nouJtry. fruit, furniture and sundries. ■ _..... . "
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 October 1928, Page 7
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