GIRL FATALLY HURT.
HORSE BOLTS WITH DRAT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TIMARU, Thursday. A girl aged 12, Valerie Carson Ferguson, daughter of Mr. J. W. Ferguson, of Evans Street, suffered severe head injuries and died instantly when a dray drawn by a bolting horse overturned down a bank at the borough abattoir this afternoon. Audrey Fairbrother, aged 10, received an injury to the back, and Mr. John Roberts, an employee of the ißorough Council, received fractured ribs and is suffering from shock.
Mr. Roberts, with the two pirls in the dray, was returning from work. Whan passing through a gate to reach the stables in one of the abattoir paddocks the horse bolted. Leaving the road leadinto to the beach, the horse ran up a hill and then swung round and raced down the hill. The dray capsized over a bank bordering the road.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 5
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