BOY CRUSHED BETWEEN FERRY AND WHARF
[Special To “Northern ■Advocate”'] AUCKLAND, This Day. An 11-years-old boy Leslie Simpson McGifford, was crushed between the vehicular ferry boat, Sparrowhawk, and the Northcote passenger wharf yesterday afternoon, receiving chest injuries from which he died 'a few minutes later. The boy was fishing from a stringer below the wharf, and was warned that the ferry boat was approaching. The bcfat brushed against the centre pile, as usual, to j work its way into the berth, then glanced off, crushing the j boy against the stringer. i The boy was taken to a doctotr. j but was dead before he arrived. j
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Northern Advocate, 27 December 1937, Page 2
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