ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
BOY CRUSHED UNDER LORRY. The Gisborne police received advice yesterday from Tolaga Bay of the death of a Maori boy named Heta Tekana Mateto an Tuesday night. The boy was riding on the Uawa County Council motor lorry, which was returning from a quarry with five tons of metal. The lad lived near a bridge, and evidently intended to got off near ms home. Apparently he slipped off when the lorry was proceeding at a slow pace, and struck the railing of the bridge. He was thrown back, and foil under the lorxy, his head being crushed. ANOTHER BOY DROWNED, Ronald Herbert Yates, aged eight years, was drowned in the Hoathcote River at Opawa (a Christchurch suburb) yesterday afternoon. With another boy ho was playing in a punt, and fell out. His companion went to his assistance, but got into difficulties, and was rescued by a passerby. Yates’s body has not yet been recovered.
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Evening Star, Issue 17594, 24 February 1921, Page 4
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157ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 17594, 24 February 1921, Page 4
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