SPECIAL TRAIN CRASHES
MINISTER, AS PASSENGER, LORRY DRIVER, SUCCUMBS. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Jan. 7. The level crossing at tne Mokotua railway station was the scene of a smash late this afternoon', when a special train in which the Minister of Railways (the Hon. W. B. Taverner), who is making a tour of the branch lines of Southland, was travelling, struck a motor-lorry: containing two men and a little girl. Alexander William Kelly, a carrier aged 31 years, residing in Invercargill, received a broken leg and severe injuries to the head, to which he succumbed in the Southland Hospital this evening. His daughter, Eithel Kelly, aged seven years, sustained a broken leg and was very severely- shocked and bruised. Her condition is stated to be very serious.
The other occupant of the lorry was Thomas Phillips, a casual labourer, aged 32 years, residing at Rimu. who was, (badly bruised. The injured w T ere placed on ‘board the train and taken to the Southland Hospital.
SECOND VICTIM DIES.
INVERCARGILL, Jan. S,
Ethel Kelly, aged seven, who was severely injured when a motor lorry •crashed on a level crossing ait Mokotua in the collisioln with the Ministerial train, died in hospital this morning.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 8 January 1930, Page 4
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