SCHOOLBOY'S DEATH.
COLLISION AT FOOTBALL.
OTHER LAD NOT TO BLAME,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
OAMARU, Monday.
At the inquest into the death of the schoolboy, Walter Hope Nairn, aged 9} years, who was killed on Friday duriug an impormptu game of football, a verdict was returned of accidental death.
The headmaster stated that on Friday afternoon he noticed the boys playing a friendly game of football. There was no roughness whatever. On his attention being drawn to the accident he found the deceased lying on the ground seriously hurt.
A doctor said the boy's injuries were consistent with him coining into violent contact with another boy's knee, the force of the collision fracturing the base of the skull. Nairn died in the doctor's arms on the way to the hospital.
A rider was returned that no blame was attachable to the boy with whom the deceased collided.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 5
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