ACCIDENTS
A WATERSIDERS’ DEATH 'By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 19th August. John L. Wilson, a waterside worker, who was injured on Tuesday at Lyttelton when lie was struck by part of the contents of a sling of cargo, died in Christchurch Public Hospital. Wilson, who was married, was aged 54 years. He lived at Heathcote Valley. FALL FROM TRAIN TIMARU, 19th August. John Montague, of Invercargill, was found unconscious lying beside the line near Seadown, seven miles north of Timaru, bv the driver of an excursion train to Christchurch. The man apparently fell from a special train returning from Christchurch to Invercargill after the Ranfurlv Shield game. The injured mail was taken on to Temuka, and transferred by ambulance to Timaru Hospital, where he is in a serious condition, suffering from shock, collapse and a dislocated shoulder. Owing to his condition it is impossible to ascertain how the accident happened, but he must have fallen unnoticed from the train, and lain beside the track all night through 11 degrees of frost.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 4
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170ACCIDENTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 4
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