TIMARU YOUTH’S DEATH
(From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU. June 4. A youth died in the Dunedin Public Hospital at 5 a.m. yesterday from injuries received at Timaru on the previous day. He was Robert Leslie Burns, aged 18, of 111 Luxmoore road, Timaru. According to the Timaru police he and others were riding bicycles over a ramp at Smithfield. Mr Burns received head injuries, and was taken to the Timaru Public Hospital in a serious condition, and was later transferred to Dunedin. An inquest will be opened there.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28604, 5 June 1958, Page 12
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