SETTLER KILLED
RUN DOWN BY TRAIN (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. Overtaken by an excursion train bound from Palmerston North to Wellington yesterday morning, John Henry Liggins, a married man, a prominent settlor in the district, was killed instantly when walking across a railway bridge at Tokomaru. The deceased was not aware of the approaching train, and was using the bridge as a means of gaining access to a property close to his own home to attend to stock.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18468, 6 August 1934, Page 7
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81SETTLER KILLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18468, 6 August 1934, Page 7
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