Motor-cyclist Killed In Collision With Train.
Press Association —Copyright. Christchurch, May 24. Reginald Foster Painter, aged 27, single, a carpenter of Darfield, received fatal head injuries when his motor-cycle collided with a train at a crossing in the centre of Rakaia township yesterday afternoon. Mr. Painter was returning from a football match at Rakaia and wont through a gap 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 his head struck the engine about the firebox, Mr. Painter died 40 minutes after the accident.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 139, 25 May 1936, Page 7
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