Small Boy Drowned While Parents at Funeral
# INVERCAEGILL, June 7. Unusually tragic cireumstances attended the death by drowning at Colae Bay yesterday, of Gordon Kaitai MeDonald, aged 2J years, the son of Mr and Mrs^G. A. McDonald, of Winton. The parents had gone to Colac Bay to attend the funeral of Wallace Crengle, aged 16, who died of injuries received about 12 years ago when he was erushed between two trueks. While they were waiting in the house, the ehild went out to play with a small girl eousin who returned to say the boy ivould not budge from the road. During aer absence Gordon tried to cross a aaddock towards the house and fell into ' i deep swamp where he was drowned.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1949, Page 3
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