ENGINE BACK FIRES.
LAUNCH CABIN ABLAZE.
LAD SERIOUSLY BURKED.
(By Tfle?ra;>ti.—Own Correspoaaent.) TAURANGA. this day. A la«.l of about IS years of age,' named Eobert Gray, was badly burnt as a result of a launch taking lire a? th* Mount yesterday. It appears that left town in his uncle's launch, Flora, after lunch, and later aac-hc-red. owing to the engine stoppinc. On re-starting the engine it back-fired and Gray ws» knocked down and rendered unconscious. The boy s-iates that when he W* covered the cabin was in fames, «nd, in ' attempting to escape, he became jammed. Finally lie managed to g« into the dinghy and was picked up by saline bors who brought him back te town, where ho reot-ived medical arteH" tion and was taken to the hospital. He is now reported to be progressing as well a= cnind be expected, thouga his condition is critical.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 6
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