BOY KILLED
TUNNEL IN BANK COLLAPSES. FATALITY AT WANGANUI. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, April 9. When a tunnel which he, with six other boys, was digging in a sandy bank on St John’s Hill collapsed, a boy was killed this morning. He was: Bruce Jenkins, aged 11, Harrison Street, Wanganui. Ten men took 20 minutes to recover the body. Drs H. D. Robertson and G. J. Adams applied artificial respiration for more than 45 minutes unsuccessfully. St John Free Ambulance men used artificial respiration till the arrival of the doctors.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390410.2.76
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
90BOY KILLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in