ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
DROWNING FEARED.
A Wairoa message reports that yesterday a young lad, Keith Williams, 8 years of age, went to the wharf in the vicinity of the post office to fish while awaiting his father, a postal employee. Later the lad’s cycle was found, also a fishing line run out from the wharf, but there was no sign of the boy, and it is now feared that he has been drowned. BURNED BY PETROL FIRE.
George Walker, aged 40, of 95 Caversham Valley road, was admitted to the Public Hospital at # 8.45, a.m. suffering from burns to his* right leg and buttock, received when some petrol caught fire at the City Motor Service Station, where he was working.
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6
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