BOY DROWNED
FALLS INTO FLOODED K-IVER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, 29th March
A verdict of drowning by accidentally falling into the Makarevva Eivcr was returned by the Coroner m the iuquost on Thursday concerning the death oil Robert Duff, aged 11, who was missed i'rom his borne on Thursday, -21st March, and whose body was found in the Makarewa River last Tuesday.
- David Bissctt Duff, father of the deceased, said that 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 breaknge in the cable was reported by another boy, and when witness went down to the bank he saw the deceased's bag there, and the cradle half-way across the stream .with the hand ropo swinging in the water. The cable and cradle had been in use for about six years, and' although a foot bridge had since been erected, a mile further away, his children preferred using the cradle. Witness thought that the deceased, in pulliug the cradle back from the other side, had slipped and fallen into the river, which was in flood, when tho tope broke : _
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 4
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206BOY DROWNED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 4
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