BOY'S SAD DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 7

BOY'S SAD DEATH.

HIT ON HEAD BY BALL ]•! \\\\<; (RICKET WITH FATHER. (From Oar Oorrosirfwxleiiit-) HAMILTON, SundayStruck on the head by a cricket hall while playing at his home on Friday afternoon, George Robert Cairns, aged four, son of Mr. A. P. Cairn*, of Tirau, died in the Waikato Hospital yosterdny. At an inquest held before the district coroner, Mr. F. W. Piatt*, the boy*a father, Alexander Patrick Cairns, stated that on Friday he 'was playing cricket with his four eon*. Deceased was using a small bat and witness was bowling to him. The second time the ball »a« i bowled the boy ran to meet it. turning ibis left side, with the result Ihal IV j ball struck him on the side <>f t\ I"■•■> ' iHe appeared to be all rishl f-.r :>'■■■ .half an hour, but then call 1 :• r 'mother. A doctor wa« -ir Ibe l»ov u.is ta'wn t-i "' V pital. '. Or. .1. IVipi ;>n . • • ]'A:t] M;jtf. -- 1.1 ■' - ■ ■• •' ' 7 ..i. Fri.br* uv.h: . . ..:••• ■ - -•■■' : '-- Hi. .•..:,.!.;...., .-.•- ■-. »"d >.-'-'- !<l.iv 'i,.- i..ii.ip..-l and <ind. "I I" 4 cau-<-..l d.-al'.i »a. bcTionhajrc «<• ,h< " ~a* c *' f (lie lira in. as a result «f a blow. A Tcrdict wa* returned in accordance ' «iih the medical »«idrncc