KILLED BY PONY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 7

KILLED BY PONY

-Press AsEOciatioiu)

Schoolboy Dragged ior Fou| Ghains TAIHAPE FATALITY

(By TelegrApii-

TAIHAPE, Jan. 19. Trampled on and kicked by a Shet» land pdny, whieh hb w&S ridiilg Mrs. 0. Steedman's farm at Ngaurukehu, near Taihape, yesterday afternoon# a schdolboy, RobCft Lofd, aged teveu - years, received injuties which etdmifiw ated in his death ^on the way t© th# iiospitab The ufiforttindte lad ftnd fifidfchef hdy#, Roger Steedman, aged eight, wefe both riding in a stoek drive leading into i small paddoek, when a sudden tttrn ea the part of the deceased's pony eatfffei him to overbalancei His foot caught ia a stirfiip leather as he feil and he wai dragged round in eircles Several timei before the pony finaUy bolted, .dr&gging the deceased about foui? ehaini before the leather broke, releasing the ufifor^ tunate boy, who was fcicked tfid traaipf led tipon by the pony. Mr. S. Steedman was working neag the soene of the acCideat and irnni#* diately rushed to the deeeased's assUt^ ance. He plaeed him in a ttotor-ea* and set but for Taihape, hui the bOy died after only a mile of the journey had been covered. The vietim was a son of Mri, E. M. Lord, of Tatiranga-Tattpo# near T(M kaann, and was spending his school holidays at Mr. Steedman's hoeae.