Two-Year-Old Child Feared Drowned At Petone
WELLINGTON, Nov. 5; An intense search conducted on Saturday for the two-year-old child Elisa- ! beth Ellen Shannon, has been , missing from her liome at Petone since 6 p.m. on Friday, and the police fear she may have wandered to the nearby Petone foreshore and been drowned. The Hutt Valley police with reinforcements from Wellington and assiBted by Petone resiclents, Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts conducted a close search of the area near the child 's home at 45 Eitzherbert Street, Petone, and Sea Cadets in two whalers searclied the har- j bour off the beach assisted by a lowflying Wellington Aero Club machine. ! Elisabeth wandered from her home 1 with a three-year-old cousin, David Caldwell, who lives at the same address. David 's father found his son soon after a few blocks away and the child indicated that Elisabeth had gone. -.tpwards i i th@. beapk, — -1
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 5
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