SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD DROWNED IN SWIMMING POOL
AUCKLAND, Nov. 11. A child whose seventh birthday would have occurred tomorrow was drowned in a swimming pool at Kamo near Whangarei early this evening!" The child was Reese Wilson Telfer, son of Mr. and Mrs.N Frederick Wilson Telfer, of Kamo. During the late afternoon the child together with a five-year-old boy, Isaac Neville Proctor, was playing around his home but later the two children wandered to the swimming pool a short distance away. About 5.45 the vounger boy returned to his home and told his mother that Reese, who could not swim, had fallen into the water. With the assistance of neighbours the pool was partly drained and the body of the ehild found.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1949, Page 5
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