TWO BOYS KILLED BY FALLING TREE.
FATHER'S TRAGIC DISCO VERY. (By Telegraph'—rress Association.) WHANGAREI, Last. Night. A pine treie ,£el\ -on a hut at Rangiahua last night,- killing Murdoch Ogle, aged nearly 12 years, and Waller Ogle,, aged 13, .both sons of Mr. Joseph Ogle. I The hut was some three-quarters of J a chain from the homestead and the tragedy "was not discovered until this I morning when Mr. Ogle went to call the boys. He found that a pine tree had been blown over smashing the hut to pieces. When he cut away the remains of the building, he found that the tree had fallen lengthwise across a double bed in which the boys were sleeping. Both were dead. It was necessary to cut away the trunk of the tree to remove the bodies. | It is surmised that the tragedy occurred at abo'ut 11 p.m., when the | family heard what they thought was a sheet of iron being blown about.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 April 1937, Page 5
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