BOY FALLS FROM CLIFF.
BODY SWEPT OUT TO SEA. » There was a tragic ending to a walk by three schoolboys at Rose Bay, says a Sydney paper. Percy Frederick Dyne Osbora, aged 13 years, lost his footing while descending a perilous cliff, and fell a distance of about 100 ft. into the water below. At about 11 a.m. Osborn, with his brother, Basil, and a boy friend, Peter Leslie, students at the Cranbrook College, walked along Lancaster Road and down Palmer Street to a high cliff known as Pirates' Peak. There are ledges* in this cliff, and the three boys attempted to reach the lowest. They descended to the first ledge, a distance of about 40ft., by a path, and went a further distance of 40ft. by means of a ladder. This landed the boys on the second ledge. They were standing there admiring the scene, when suddenly the other boys were horror-stricken to see Percy slip over the cliff and fall a distance of 100 ft. to the water and rocks below. The rock on which he had been standing gave way, and he lost his footing. The two other boys noticed the tide sweeping the body southward, out to sea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 9
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