The woman who was killed by a rock on the Wellington to Napier train

The woman who was killed by a rock on the Wellington to Napier train

Poor, poor Alice Power of Greymouth, 25 years old, setting off on the holiday of a lifetime, boarding a second-class carriage with her friend Margaret Moran on the Wellington to Napier train express on February 20, 1911, a midsummer’s day with a light southerly blowing.She was travelling to visit her brother in Napier. She packed a carpet bag, a calico night case embroidered with her initials, which held her nightgown, night cap, a change of lin…