TWO BOYS DEAD
SUFFOCATED BY SAND. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, November 30. A distressing fbality occurred, yesterday afternoon, when two boys, aged 10 years, William Ross Talboys, and William Russell Poulton were suffocated under a fall of sand in a vacant section at Musselburgh. The bpys hud excavated a tunnel through a high sand bank and while the victims crawled through, a third boy remained outside. The bank collapsed suddenly, completely burying the boys. Assistance was secured, about twenty men digging frantically, but the boys were dead when recovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1931, Page 6
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