A DANGEROUS GAME.
BOYS HURT BY FALLING CHIMNEY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, this day. While playing ships in their back yard, two boys Walter (aged 12), and Ronald (10), sons of W. J. Mclntosh. Dannevirke, fastened a rope to the wash house chimney. Having improvised thig as a mast of their imaginary ship, the youngei mariner was descending when the chimney was noticed to be crumbling. The elder brother went to his assistance, with the result that the chimney fell on him, and some bricks ptruck Ronald on the leg. breaking it. Walter escaped with a severe cut on the leg.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 11
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101A DANGEROUS GAME. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 24 February 1923, Page 11
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