BOY KILLED
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, this day. Leslie David Pearson, aged 15, /hile riding in a motor truck on Saturday afternoon, was pushed from tie vehicle by a heavy benzine drum s the truck turned a corner. The rum fell on the boy's head, which vas severely crushed, and travelled nd over end a distance of 42 feet, aking with it the boy's body, before oming to rest. The boy was killed istantly. The truck driver was Mr. Villiam C. Carson, a bridge builder.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 80, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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