RUN OVER BY TRAIN
EX-NAVAL MAN'S DEATH (Per Press Association.) nUXI-njIN, hist, night. Through fulling between the wheels of ,it sheep wagon in the railway yards yesterday, Ja.ines Uurdiiig, 41, single, mot his death. A. train was in the yards, when it stopped to have the guar.d's van taken off, then pulling up to Ji.att.ray street crossing, where it .stood for (v few minutes. The railway pojrt.cr at the erossijig, after receiving the signal to let the train cross the road, .noticed a man's leg being turned over by the wheels of tlie 'rain and immediately whistled to the driver to st.op. No one knows how the .man became entangled between the wheels and no one has reported having seen him ill the yards'. The deceased was an exchief petty officer in the New Zealand navy and was discharged recently from H.M.S. Luuedih. Ho was without; relatives in New Zealand. The secretary 'of tlie Returned Soldiers' Association is making arrangements for the man's funeral.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 11
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