BOY FATALLY INJURED
Struck By Falling Rock
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) v DUNEDIN. May 21. When a large rock of limestone fell on a boy, John R. Schofield, aged 13, at Airedale, North Otago< about 3.30 this afternoon, he received injuries to which he succumbed half an hour later. He was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. James Schofield. Airedale. With his brother James, who is 14, the boy. took shelter from rain under an overhanging limestone ledge about 300 or 400 yards from their home. A block of limestone, estimated to weigh about foyr hundredweight, fell on him, pinning him to the ground and fracturing his skull and leg. James, who was standing two or three feet away, summoned his-father, who happened to be nearby, and the two released the boy, but he died within half an hour.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 4
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139BOY FATALLY INJURED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 4
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