Believed to have been struck by an overhead bridge when he was up on the tender of his engine about a mile north of Hunterville in the early hours of Saturday morning, the driver of a goods train, Mr Albert Ernest Rowley, of Taihape, married, was thrown to the track and suffered a fractured skull and severe head injuries. The train had travelled a distance of about two miles before the fireman, Mr George Squires, Taihape, noticed that his companion was missing.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 71, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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