ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
/Per Prt'bf .xbbociatinu). A bo.v named Ronald Hugiue Hollis, aged nine years, was drowned in the Motuppipi river. Takaka district. He was swimming with two companion and got out of hsi dentil, bein; drowned in six feet of water. Leslie Wilfred Murphy, aged 15 years, the son of Mrs W. E. Murphy, lyndall street, Pahiatua. was admitted to the public hospital, suffering from severe wounds in the abdomen inflicted by flying glass as a result of an explosion during experiments with sodium in the science room of the District High School. A young man. Claude Ingley, was electrocuted while working on a nower iln© at Waitoki Valley this morning. He was lengthening the jumpers when he got a shock, death being instantaneous. The deceased's parents lived at Whakatane. Leslie Plummer, aged 32, a labourer, . was_ found dead on his father’s farm in Kent road. 'New Plymouth, late last night. Early in the evening he took a gun to look for rabbits. Not returning, a search was made, and the body found close to a wire fence, with the gun alongside, one barrel being discharged. It is assumed that in getting through, or over, the fence the gun was accidentally discharged.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 47, 7 February 1928, Page 6
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203ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 47, 7 February 1928, Page 6
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