BOY FALLS OVER CLIFF
ACCIDENT AT PINE ISLAND
When he fell from a cliff on Pine Island at about mid-day yesterday Benjamin Johnson, aged seven, had his left leg broken and his nose injured. The boy’ had been’ staying, with his mother, Mrs. M. A. Murphy, at 5 Edwin Street, Mount Eden, and his mother and grandmother had taken him for the day' to Pine Island. The three of them had just climbed the hill above the wharf when he fell down the cliff. A launch took him to Beach Haven, and he was then taken on to Birkenhead by car, being transferred to a ferry and taken from the Auckland wharf to the hospital by* the St. John Ambulance. He reached the hospital at about three o’clock in the afternoon. His injuries are not serious.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 555, 7 January 1929, Page 14
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136BOY FALLS OVER CLIFF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 555, 7 January 1929, Page 14
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