INFANT KILLED IN 150 FT. FALL
(PA.) BLENHEIM, Mar. 7. Tire infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rutland, Seddon, was killed when he fell 150 feet down a precipitous face of a limestone bluff bordering the Awatere River on Friday evening. He was; Francis Robert Rutland, aged 21 months.
The child was missed in the early evening and was found by a search party about 10-15 p.m. stranded on a shingle bank about 100 yards down the stream from the bluff. It is thought that the child fell to his death when he wandered along a fence line where erosion has caused the limestone formation to crumble.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22888, 7 March 1949, Page 4
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