DROWNED IN LAGOON
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Slipped Down Low Bank CHRISTCHURCH FATALITY
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Telegraph—
CHEISTOHUECH, Last Night. Colin Leslie James Aitken, aged two years and two months, a son of Mr and Mrs L. C. P. Aitken, of Waikuku Beach, was found drowned in a lagoon at the beach about noon "to-day. At the inquest the coroner (Mr H. A. Young) returned a verdict that the ehild had been aeeidentally drowned. Constable J. P. Simmonds said he had examined the bank of the lagoon and found marks indicating that the child had slipped down a three-foot banlr into the water.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 5
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