MEMORIAL TO BRAVE GIRL
Kl'T OUT TO PROTECT BABY
RAILWAY BRfJXIE! THAO ELY. (Gy Teleffrapfi—Press Association.; WELLINGTON. June (>. On behalf of the primary school children of Wellington a framed inscription to the memory of a brave little girl is to be placed in tbe Kakariki school, Wanganui, of which she was a pupil. This tribute is a sequel to a tragedy at the Kakariki railway bridge on Boxing Day, when Frances Mason, aged 10, and her cousin Molly t'amplin, aged three, were killed by a train. At the inquest the driver of the train said Frances Mason tried to protect her baby cousin with her own body when slu* saw a train coming.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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113MEMORIAL TO BRAVE GIRL Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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