DROWNED IN FISH POND
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Baby Boy's Death at New Plymouth
Telegraph-
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. About five minutes after being missed, John Charles McNeill, aged 11$ months, was found drowned at midday yesterday when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McNeill, diseovered his body in a fish pond in their front garden in Carrington road. Efforts to resuscitate tbe infant were unavailing. The child was playing abont the garden with other members of the family when he disappeared. A seaTch was begun immediately and he was found lying face upwards in less than 18 inches of water. The boy was unable to walk properly and it ie surmised that he crawled to the pond,' raised himself to the top of 1 the ledge about two feet high, and toppled over as he was watching the fish.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 44, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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