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CHILD RUN OVER BY TRUCK. [Per Press Association]. BLENHEIM, August 19. Running from behind the school bus, when it stopped at a settler’s gate to pick up children, ,Beryl Ivory, aged 10, the daughter- of Mr. and Mrs. G. Ivory, of .Rapaura, near Blenheim, was struck yesterday by a motor truck, driven by Noel Rose, sustaining a fractured skull and severe facial injuries. The child alighted from the bus, in order to take some mail across to the settler’s letter-box. She was carried some distance by the truck, which passed over her. She was admitted to hospital, and her condition was critical this morning. HOME FOR CRIPPLES. AUCKLAND, August 17. The appointment of Sister Faulconbridge, of Auckland, to the position of matron of the Wilson Home for crippled children at Takapuna, was made by the Auckland Hospital Board. Sister Faulconbridge has been sister at the Auckland Hospital for more than three years, and is at present in charge of the infantile paralysis cases in the children’s ward.
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Grey River Argus, 20 August 1937, Page 4
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