TRAM GUARD HURT.
COLLIDED WITH A POLK" Per Press Association. CHRISTCHTT RCH. Oct. 11. A serious accident befell Charles Unsworth McGra-th, 23 years of age, a son of Sub-Inspector McGrath, this evening. Young McGrath, v.'ilC' is a conductor on tlie trams, on which he has been employed for tlie past five»or six months, was changing over the seats of a car which had just left the Addington terminus shortly after five o'clock, and was going between four and five miles an hour, when in moving on the footboard from one part of the car to another his head came in contact with one of the tramway poles. The concussion rendered him unconscious and he fell back clear nf the car. and sustained a cut 011 the back of his head. He was brought to town in the tram, and taken to his home and received attention. '■ erfJy after nine o'clock ho regained consciousness.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5
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