NEW PLYMOUTH.
February 10. At the Wesleyan Sunday School picnic yesterday afternoon a fatal accident happened. A number of children were swinging on the branches of a fallen tree, the trunk or which was resting on the branches, when the branch broke, causing the trunk of the tree to roll over a little boy named Darey Harold Jackson, a son of Mr S. W. Jackson, about six years old. He was passing when the trunk rolled on him, crushing him to death. A little girl named Woolcock was fcDocked down by the branches and severely hurt, and had her leg broken. A boy named Malcolm Clow bad bis thigh broken. The tree was thirty feet in length and seven feet in diameter. An inquest is now being held.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3004, 10 February 1881, Page 3
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