SHUNTER SLIPS UNDER WAGGON AND IS KILLED.
FATALITY IN YARD AT CH’CH STATION. While assisting in Shunting operations at the Christchurch Railway Station shortly before eight o’clock on Saturday night, Hugh Cameron, a married man, aged, thirty-four, residing at 38, Forth Street, Richmond, slipped under a waggon near the goods shed aiirl received injuries to the head and body which proved fatal in a few moments. He was dead, when removed from beneath the waggon.
An inquest was opened by the District Coroner, Mr 11. P. Lawry, yesterday afternoon, and after evidence of identification had been given by William Henry M’Laughlin, a railway shunter, the inquest was adjourned until next Friday.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18016, 29 November 1926, Page 15
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