SHUNTING ACCIDENT
One truck was derailed, another lifted from one rail and tilted over, a motor lorry slightly damaged and a railway shunter slightly injured, in a collision in shunting operations at the New I‘lv mouth yards. The lorry was loading cement near the points and insufficient clearance was left between a line oi moving trucks. The lorry was saved from more severe damage by the derail merit of a truck. A shunter. Mr. J. Faulkner, who was on the line of moving trucks, received bruises, but was able to proceed home after receiving medical attention.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 16
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96SHUNTING ACCIDENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 16
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