ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
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DUNEDIN, Oct. 3. A boy named Roy Dempster, aged 18 months, whose parents resido at Flag Swamp, died yesterday as the result of injuries sustained through being kicked by a horse on September 25th.
MASTERTON, Oct. 3. A boy named Arthur Roy Leo, aged four, had a narrow escape from drowning about one o’clock this afternon. He was playing with his brother on the bank of the Waipoua river -and fell in. Tho river was in Hood and a strong current was running, and lie was carried down the stream some distanco. Kenneth Scott, of Lansdowne. who was riding across tho Waipoua bridge on horseback, noticed the lad floating down, and immediately dismounted and plunged into the river. Ho rescued the boy, who was unconscious. Artificial respiration was employed, and ho was brought round and a doctor attended him.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2202, 4 October 1907, Page 3
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143ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2202, 4 October 1907, Page 3
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