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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 7

While playing alone on the littiefrequented sands to the east of the River Lossie. at Lossiemouth, Scotland, recently, Ronald Mackenzie, aged thirteen, was buried head first whex: the sides of a deep hole he had dug caved in on him. At the time there were not half a dozen persons withsxx miles of this spot, and his plight wa:; accidentally discovered bv Retta Boyd, a Glasgow visitor, aged ten. who changed to knock a golf ball in the direction of the sandhole Noticing a pair of boots protruding from the side of the hole, the girl gave one of them a pull and to her astonishment found that there was a foot inside. She called her brother, aged sixteen, w’ho realised that without aid they could not hope to extricate Mackenzie. They were able, however, to attract the attention of two men. who succeeded in digring out the buried boy with his own spade Life appeared to be extinct, but after artificial respiration had been appked he recovered consciouxuos.- was temoved to his heme.