STRUCK BY TABLET.
TWO PASSENGERS INJURED. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Monday. As the result of a tablet receiving apparatus at Halcombe railway station swinging back, two passengers on the Main Trunk express this morning met with injuries. Mr Robert Grant, an immigrant who arrived at Auckland by the Suffolk on Friday, and who was proceeding to Kaiapoi woollen mills, had his skull frEcturcd Mr Thomas Noble sustained head laceration.
Both were attended by an Auckland doctor on the train. On reaching here Grant was unconscious, and was removed to the hospital. His condition is serious. ONE VICTIM SUCCUMBS. PALMERSTON N., This Day. Robert Grant, one of the men injured through being struck by a tablet receiver at Halcombe, died in the hospital. It is understood he was a single man, a native of Scotland. A message from Feilding reports that a third man was. injured when the tablet exchanger arm was released by contact with Grant and Noble, and swung back injuring a railway clerk named Joseph Roseman.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1450, 15 January 1924, Page 5
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