STRANGE BUT TRUE.
KILLED BECAUSE COULD NOT READ. Ignorance is (responsible for more accidents 'than anything else. A boy from Bethnal Green, London, has been killed on his holidays because, though lie was 13 years of age, he could not read. There are plenty of notices on South-end Flier warning people of the danger flrom the live-rail running by thei electric tramway there; hut this boy climbed the railings by which the line was separated from the promenade, and the 500-volt curI t ' en 't kfflded him. The father told the coroner that his son could only read simple words as cat and rat.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 3
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104STRANGE BUT TRUE. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 3
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