CHILD CAUGHT IN SHAFT
MILKING SHED TRAGEDY [Per United Press Association.] * ROTORUA. October 31. Tragic circumstances were attached to the death on a farm at Guthrie Settlement this morning of a four-year-old child, Alexander Alfred Bannan, a sou of Mr and Mrs Alfred J. Bannan, who are sharerailking on a property. Apparently the boy, who was seen by a farm labourer, Archibald George Smith, playing in the vicinity of the cowshed about 9.30, wandered into the basement containing the machinery for driving a water pump for milking operations. It is believed that, becoming interested in the revolving shaft, the lad attempted to touch it, with the result that his clothing was caught up by the shafting. His body was discovered later, still caught up in the shafting, the machinery in the meantime having been stopped when milking operations ceased.
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Evening Star, Issue 23103, 1 November 1938, Page 14
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139CHILD CAUGHT IN SHAFT Evening Star, Issue 23103, 1 November 1938, Page 14
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