INJURED AT PLAY.
BOY'S DEATH IN HOSPITAL. STRUCK BY FALLING TIMBER. [BY telegraph.—own correspondent.] TAITMARUNUI, Friday. An inquest concerning the death of Leonard William Bloomfield, aged nine, who died in the hospital on October 30 following injuries received at Otunui on October 14, was held to-day before Mr. A. S. Laird. John George Charles Leach, school teacher, Otunui, said that on October 14 ho was at Mr. Lyons' house working in one of the roams. The children wero holding a party outside and suddenly lie heard a loud scream. On going out he found a plank lying across deceased's legs. He made inquiries from the other children and they informed him that a tripod had fallen over and struck the lad. In his opinion it was an accident. The coroner returned a verdict of death from meningitis, excited by injuries accidentally received at Otunui.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 16
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