ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
BOY INJURED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' NELSON, Aug. 22. John Rowland Talbot, of Motueka, aged 14, a son of Major D. W. Talbot, when returning from a shed at the rear of the house, ran into a two-horse cultivator and sustained a broken rib, which penetrated the right lung. The night was very (lark, and the’ cultivator was not in its accustomed place. The patient is progressing as well as can be expected. CHILD DROWNED. AUCKLAND, Aug. 22. A sad fatality occurred at Papatoetoe this afternoon, when the infant daughter of Mr Peat was found drowned in a horse trough. The child, who was 18 months old, was left to play while its mother was preparing tea. It- was later missed, and the body Was iound in a trough near the house.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 August 1924, Page 5
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