FATAL FALL
(By Telegraph.) ' (Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. The inquest on Bernard James Louden, a schoolboy, 10 years of age, was opened by the Coroner (Mr. W. K. M'Kean). The lad's uncle said the boy attended the Mangere Bridge He usually walked,-but-in bad weather ho travelled in. .a. bus. His, mother, who isl a widow, gave "him the money for his fare yesterday morning, but on tho way to school with four other boys ho was picked up by- a motor-lorry driver, William George Dunstan. The boy, like the other lads, was standing up on the lorry, each endeavouring to keep his balance longer than, the others. Near the top" o£ the hill 'the" lorry, which was travelling at amo.dorato pace, swayed, and Louden and a boy named Overtoil fell off on to the road. Overtoil was not hurt. Louden, however, was hurried to Auckland Hospital^ but died on the way from concussion of the brain.
After evidenco of /identification had been taken, the inquest-Was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 134, 10 June 1927, Page 12
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