DEATH OF A SHUNTER.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. [by telegraph.—own correspondent. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. At the inquest on Hugh Cameron, a married man, aged 34 years, who was run over and killed by a railway waggon when shunting at the Christcharch railway station on November 27, evidence was given that Cameron, who was an experienced shunter, failed in an attempt to jump across the front of the waggon. A verdict was returned that death was due to a fracture of the skull received while engaged in shunting operations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19503, 6 December 1926, Page 14
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