ELDERLY WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN
• > ' NEAR MORNINGSIDE STATION (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. ' Struck by a train going from Auckland to Swanson when she was attempting to cross the.line between the ilorningside and Mount Albert stations, an elderly woman, Mrs Christina Still, a widow, aged 65 years, was thrown against the rock holding-wall and was killed. She received severe head and body injuries and was dead when medical assistance reached her a few minutes after the accident. When she was almost across the line Mrs" Still-, was hit by the train which left Auckland station at 2.35 p.m., and ' was a few minutes away, from the Morningside" l " station. Thei’e is an incline at the scene of the accident, and I the train was going fairly slowly. She was thrown about six feet along the line and fell against the bank.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 8
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