BRICKWALL COLLAPSES
SIX SCHOOLBOYS HUKT Received Wednesday, S.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 14. Six Newgastle Higli School boys were injured when a brick wall of a grandstand eollapsed on them during a sports meeting as schoolmates gave a warcry. Two who were buried under heavy slahs of bricks, probably ow_their lives to the fact that a score of parked bicycles took the weight of the falling wall. The injuries, none ot which was critical, include a broken leg, eoncussion, ahrasions and contusions, The other boj's remained cairn and were quickly engaged in rescue woi'k.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 5
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