Boy dies in hopper
(N.Z. Press Association»
ROTORUA, May 10.
A 12-year-old boy was crushed to death in a metal hopper in a concrete yard in Rotorua today. He was Christopher Robin Borst, a schoolboy, of Toupa Road, Rotorua.
The Rotorua police said the boy fell Into the hopper, which was handling dry metal. He was lodged in the base of the hopper, and although workmen cut away the metal base the bov was dead.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32603, 11 May 1971, Page 1
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