TRAM FATALITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 113, 4 July 1911, Page 4

TRAM FATALITY.

WELL-KNOWN WELL 1N G TON lAN KILLED. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, July 3. Mr. Duncan McMurrich, marine superintendent in Wellington for the Union Steam Ship Company, was killed by a tram car to-night. He and his wife were crossing the street near the corner of J envois Quay and Balia neo Street. They did not notice that a car was coming near them. The niotonnan seeing them, rang the alarm bell. McMurrich and his wife hesitated. Then lie went forward and attempted to pull his wife with him, apparently thinking there was time to cross before the car reached the spot. McMurrich, however, was .knocked down, and when taken off the lifeguard, it was found that his skull was fractured, death having been practically instantaneous. Deceased, who was 57 years of age, had been many years in the service of the Union Company. He came from Scotland in the old Rotorua, and afterwards was employed on a number of the company’s steamers, lastly as chief engineer of the Mararoa. Some fourteen years ago he was made supriiitendenf at Wellington. Pie leaves i w blow and five sons and one daugh-