ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
Dragged for over eight chains by a bolting horse, Thomas Meikle, aged 15, of Auckland, received very severe injuries on Saturday morning and died while being brought from his uncle’s farm at Reporoa, where the accident occurred, to the King George Hospital at Rotorua. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Meikle, of 3, Ewington Avenue, Dominion road. The lad went out on his uncle's farm at about 11.30 a.m. in order to catch the horse, which he intended to ride into the settlement at Reporoa, about four miles away. He had just secured the horse with a halter when the animal became frightened and bolted. The rope became entangled around the boy’s left arm and he was dragged at the heels of the terrified animal for the length of the paddock. The unfortunate youth was a student at the Seddon Memorial Technical College, Auckland, and had passed both the university entrance and public service examinations.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 36, 26 January 1932, Page 5
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