INJURED BOY SUCCUMBS
STRUCK liY ATHLETE'S HAMMER) FATAL-TTY AT NAPIER, fby TeJegrapn —Vtess Association.) NAPIER, Nov. IS. Gavin Stuart, the boy who was injured by r. hammer svt a sports meeting. last night, died tills morning. Stuart was, hit oil the side of the head ]>yi a 161 b hammer which had been thrown bv an athlete named Campbell when practising on McLean Park at the conclusion of. the Napier athletic meeting. As Campbell was about to throw the hammer either he slipped or the hammer left in a direction he did not anticipate and went towards, two boys sitting on a fence. Roth boys were knocked .from the fence. Stuart was struck on the side of the head while the other boy was struck only by the chain. The latter soon recovered, hut Stuart was removed to hospital.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 19 November 1932, Page 4
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