SADDLE GIRTHS BREAK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 8

SADDLE GIRTHS BREAK.

DEATH OF YOUTH. FATHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. Per Press Association. DAItGAVILLE April 2. . A youth named Edward Archibald Millstead, a son of Mr H. K.. Millstead, a farmer on the Awakino Road, was found dead on the main Darga-viile-Whangarei Road, just on the borough boundary, this morning. The youth left his father’s farm yesterday afternoon, riding a horse and leading another, in order to milk cows at Wharau.

The father went to Wharau this morning in a service bus and noticed two horses grazing on the, roadside. On arrival at the farm he found that the cows had not been milked. He immediately returned to where the horses were grazing and found his son’s dead body in a ditch near the roadside.

The boy had evidently been thrown off the .horse through the saddle girths breaking. It is strange that the body was not found until to-day, as some hundreds of cars must have passed it between the time of the accident and its discovery. An inquest revealed that the boy’s neck had been brdken. A verdict of accidental death was returned.