CHILD DROWNED
FALL INTO A CREEK DISCOVERY BY FATHER (Pur Press Association.) BLENHEIM, tills day. Alan John Smith, aged two years •and four months, the son of Mr. Francis Leslie Smith, a garage proprietor, Spv-in,glands, was found drowned in a small creek near his home on. Saturday afternoon. The lad was missing only a few minutes before the search began, but some time elapsed before the fragile discovery was made by the father. It is. .apparent 'that the child slipped down a bank into the water and became covered with weed, which accounted for the fact that ill was not unit LI he made a second visit to the spot thait Mr. Smith located the body. It was then too. 'late for the successful application of resuscitation measures, although artificial respiration was applied.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 7
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133CHILD DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 7
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