BOY DROWNED.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (PEES 3 ASSOCIATION TSLEOBAJt.) INVERCARGILL, March 29. A verdict of drowning by accidentally falling into the Makarewa river was returned by the Coroner at the inquest on Thursday concerning the death of Robert Duff, aged 11, who was missed from his home on Thursday, March 21st. and whose body was found in the Makarewa river last Tuesday. David Bissett Duff, the boy's father, said his son usually crossed the river in a cradle swung on a wire cable between two pulleys. Three other children had crossed over before and his son had to pull the cradle back to his side. A breakage in the cable was reoorted bv another boy and when witness went down to the bank he saw his boy's bag there and the cradle half way across the stream with the hand rope swinging in the water. The cable and cradle had been in use for about six years, and although a footbridge had since been erected a mile further awav his children preferred using the cradle. Witness thought that the bov, in pulling the cradle back from the other side, had slipped and fallen into the river, which was in flood, when the rope broke.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19581, 30 March 1929, Page 8
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