CHILD'S FATAL INJURIES
ACCIDENT ON FARM EVIDENCE AT INQUEST [by TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] WHANGA 1*1:1, Tuesday An inquest was held today into the death of John Raymond Bireslin, aged fivti years, who was f: telly injured through being caught in a milking machinp on a farm at Tilolii last evening. Margaret Mary Breslin, iiister of the boy. said the engine stopped and there was a. hang. She rushed i it:» the engine room and found her brother lying on the. concrete floor, his clothing torn nearly to pieces and his head terribly injured. Witness said shu and a Maori helper were at the cowshtid at the time. John Breslin, of Titoki, lather of the hoy, said lie had on se"e::al occasions warned his son not to g> near the engine. Witness was away from home at ths time of the accident. Harry McGregor, inspector of machinery, said that in his opinion the end of the crankshaft of the engine constituted a danger to punions working in the vicinity, and ho considered a guard should have bee a placed-over the • shaft while the ertgino was in motion. The inquest was ndjovriied sine die.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 14
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192CHILD'S FATAL INJURIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 14
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