DROWNED IN ZOO LAKE
“It is clear from the evidence that this small boy wandered from home and must have climbed over the fence surrounding the ornamental lake. There is no evidence to show how be came to be in the water, but it can reasonably be understood that he was attracted by the swans and ducks in the lake, slipped, and fell in,” commented the coroner, Mr. W. G. Mellish, at an inquest on Friday into the death of Malcom Harding Harding, aged 4, of Waripori Street, Newtown. Evidence was given by Constable C. G. Carlson that at 7.45 a.m. on October 2, while the Newtown zoo was being searched for the boy, who had been missing since late the previous afternoon, the body was found floating face downward in three feet of water in a lake close to the entrance gales. It appeared to have been in the water a considerable time. The boy's cap was hanging on an adjacent tree, mid the lake was enclosed by a three-feet high fence ten feet from the water.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 14, 12 October 1942, Page 2
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178DROWNED IN ZOO LAKE Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 14, 12 October 1942, Page 2
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