SIXTY FEET FALL FROM CLIFF
SHOCKING FATAIJTY AT RUSSEXTj TOUTH DEAD, COMPANION ' CRAWLS VO SAFETY. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Last Night. News has been received of a shocking accident at Deep-Water Cove, Russell, on Saturday evening. Eric Brownlee, aged 18, of Northcote, and Frank Clow, of Russell were returning from a scramble over the Peninsula and were resting on the summit of, the cliffs one hundred feet high, when the branch of the tree against which they were reclining, 'gave way, precipitating both on to a rocky ledge, sixty feet down. Brownlee received Injuries from which he died. His companion was rendered unconscious and remained near the foot of the cliff all night. He crawled next morning a mile and a quarter back to Deep-Water Cove, A somewhat similar accident occurred n't Deep Creek to-day, Jack Edwards, aged seventeen, of Takapuna, falling forty feet over a cliff and sustaining u compound fracture of the skull.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3247, 18 January 1926, Page 8
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