BOY SURVIVES 80ft FALL
Slipped On Pine Needles
(N.Z. Press Auociation) WANGANUI, Jen. 4
Alan Cvitanovich, aged 9, of 26 Victoria avenue, is lucky to be alive.
On Tuesday while playing with friends tn pme trees at the top of Shakespeare cliff in Taylorville, just upstream of Wanganui’s tower bridge, he slipped on some pine needles and plunged 80 feet to the road below.
A taxi-driver passing by saw him fall on to the road and Alan was rushed to Wanganui Hospital by ambulance.
In spite of his fall, no bones were broken. Alan receiving internal injuries and shock.
His condition today was described as enfistectory.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29713, 5 January 1962, Page 12
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