STRUCK BY A TRAIN
MINE EMPLOYEE'S FATE RUNNING ALONG THE LINE j [by telegraph OW>- correspondent] "WAIHI, Tuesday A married ma.n, W illiara Godfrey Collins, aged 63 years, an employee of the Martha Gold Mining Company, was run over and killed instantly at Waikino by the incoming eleven o'clock express from Auckland this morning. At the time of the accident he was one of a gang of men working on the company's private level railway crossing in the battery yard and on hearing the train whistle he ran along the line to see if a horse and cart, of which he was in charge, was clear of danger. The animal took fright and bolted and in giving chase Mr. Collins evidently forgot that the train was gaining oa him until too late. The euginedrivisr did not see the deceased in time to pull up the train. Mr. Collins leaves a wife and grownup family.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22317, 15 January 1936, Page 10
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