BOY FATALLY INJURED
DRAWN INTO SPILLWAY (P A ) WHANGAREI, Jan. 6. Drawn into the spillway of the Wairua electric power station and then carried over the falls, a five-year-old boy named Peter Erceg, son of Mr Frank Erceg, an employee at the stai tion, was fatally injured this morning. I The boy had been playing in the water above the falls and had fallen into the spillway. When a doctor arrived in an ambulance the boy was found to be dead.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25737, 8 January 1945, Page 2
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