SCHOOLBOY’S FATAL FALL
TRAGEDY" AT NEW PLYMOUTH. DROP FROM TOP OF TREE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 30. A High School boy, T. Downey, aged 15, fell 40 feet from the top of a pine tree to the hillside below shortly after noon to-day and broke his neck. The fatality occurred when the lad was gathering pine cones and was discovered by his brother when the latter came to call him for lunch. Apparently Downey, who was wearing football boots, slipped and there were no branches on the side -of the tree to break his fall. .
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 9
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