ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
Per Press Association. HAMILTON, January 14. At the inquest on Albert Reed, plateIlayer, kilted :m 'collision with a train while riding on a jigger, a verdict of accidental death was returned. A rider waa added that the railway system was faulty, inasmuch as it does not provide that platelayera ]je advised of special tiiains, also that telephone communication should ba established at plateilayei-s' houses at out-stations. AUCKLAND, January 15. A fatality ia reported from Te Aroha. An .infant, the son of William Hartley, fell on a. swing and dislocated his neck. The child was ,out for a few minutes, and the mother missed him and found him ly.'aiig with hjis neck resting on the swings and his hands and feet touching the Aground. The boy was quite dead. A verdict of aoc:dentail#death, with no bkme^atterbutkble ipo :ofo>n<!, was returned; '•■•'•-• v; 1 * * : . .
DUNEDIN f January 15. ■: f^fc^mas Ward, 22 years of age, a fireman on an engine, run over at Abbotsford during - shunting operations on Saturday, died from his injuries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12402, 16 January 1905, Page 5
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