TWO BOYS KILLED
TREE FALLS ON HUT m.v Telegraph—Press Association] WHANGAREI, 23rd April. A pine tree fell on a hut at Rangiahua last night killing Murdoch Ogle, aged 12 years and Walter Ogle, aged jl3 years, both sons of Mr Joseph Ogle. The hut was some threequarters |of a chain from the homestead and j lhe tragedy was not discovered until this morning. When Mr Ogle went to call the boys he found the pine tree had blown over, smashing the hut to pieces. When he cut away the remains of the building and found that the tree j fell lengthwise across the 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 11 p.m., when the family heard what they Ihought was a sheet of iron blown about.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 15
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