ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assoeiatios. Dunedin, Lost Night. I An accident occurred at the Kaikorai tram termius tins afternoon whereby a rfiiJd named Henry Burton, aged four years, son of Guorge Burton, gripman on ltoslyn tram line, was killed. The tram reached the terminus about 4.20, and while the officials were preparing for the return trip to town the child must have got in front of the car looking tilirough the slot rail hi such a position tliat the driver could not see him. The child was extricated in a few minutes, but life was extinct)
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 3 September 1908, Page 2
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