MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED
machine strikes engine fatality at rakaia [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday When riding a motor-cycle, Mr. Reginald Foster Painter, aged 27 years, of Darfield, received fatal head injuries As the result of a collision with a train at a crossing in the centre of Rakaia township yesterday afternoon. Mr. Painter was returning from a football match in Rakaia and went through a gaip in some trucks. Shunting was being done at the station and although Mr. Painter was travelling very slowly he hit an engine passing on another line of rails. He could not save himself and it is thought that his head struck the engine near the firebox. He died 40 minutes after the accident. He was a single man and a carpenter by occupation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22427, 25 May 1936, Page 10
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