FATAL SWING ON ROPE.
BOY KILLED A"5 PLAY.
CONCRETE POST COLLAPSES.
LAD STRUCK BY HEAVY MASS. [by telegraph.—OWN correspondent.] HAMILTON, Monday. Fatal injuries were sustained this afternoon by Mervyn St. George, aged six years, - the son of Mi". Alfred St. George, baker, of Grey Street, Hamilton East. A number of infant children were going home from the Hamilton East school when the boy St. George began to swing on a rope stretched between two concrete gate posts at the yard of the Stevenage Construction Works. One of the posts collapsed, and the cap and pillar, weighing lewt., fell on the boy's head. The lad was taken to the Waikato Hospital, and died half an hour after admission.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 8
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