KILLED ON RAILWAY
TRAIN-EXAMINER’S DEATH. ( Per Press Association ). HAMILTON, June 29. Overtaken by the Auekland-Taneatuti express at Huntlo.v this morning, a train-examiner named Percy Trevor Honson, aged 45, had both legs severed, succumbing to his injuries almost immediately. Henson was walking to the Pukemiro branch yard to test train brakes and failed to hear the express approaching on account of heavy rain and wind. A sad feature was that deceased with his wife and two children arrived at Huntly only yesterday on transfer from Ohakunc.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 8
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