STAGING SINKS IN WATER
FIFTY CHILDREN IMPERILLED NEARLY A TRACEDY [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 19. While fifty children were crowded on the landing stage at Kaiapoi to-day watching the regatta, the staging collapsed and slowly sank, and the children had to hurry ashore through 2ft, of water. If the collapse of the staging had been more complete the children would have been thrown into 6ft of water, and the position would have been grave. One boy swam ashore, and the others were able to regain the bank, or were taken off the sinking stage by motor boats.
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Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 4
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99STAGING SINKS IN WATER Evening Star, Issue 19795, 20 February 1928, Page 4
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