CHILD DROWNED.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1925, Page 3

CHILD DROWNED.

AT I.M I ELTON WIIARE. i«v Ti:i.K;,ii*rn -mat pskss ahsouiatiox.J ('ll R ISTCH C ltd I. Sept. :l A most distressing fatality occurred on Ihe I-V'lT'. wharf at. I.vtlellim this eveiiing. v. h.'ii D-u-eeu t ‘:11i. aged only two and a-lialf years. was drowned The lather. Mr Arehihald Cull', a miner of Givyiimiith. ua- taking Ids two i-hililren in Wellmglon to pluiv them in the ear, of Ids her. He was earryiii"- a young boy aged IS months, anil leading the girl by I lie hand. She became excited at, the sight of the \\ abine. and. breaking away from her I'lltlier. she ran across tie- wharf to tom h th.e -hip. Et-lore tin- L-tthei' eon Id reaeii her. she fell into the water. There was a rush to Ihe edge ef I lie wharf, lint at that moment, the vessel drifted into tin- jelly. and prevented aiiyl.ud.i from getting down. About j:I bystanders actually pushed the vessel sufficiently far away to allow a Union Company employee. Mr ,1. Childs, to he In wen I with a rope, and a lighted Hare was thrown from the Waliiiie. Nothing could be seen of the child, however, -he evidently having been washed under the wharl liv discharge of condenser water I min tin- Wallin,*. A search was then mad.- from the opposite side, and the Ch'.el Officer ot file | lororata located her. and she was taken from the water. Dr. Hall, of the steamer. Ilororala. took char; - •!' the ms.', and artificial spiral inn v. as resorted to for an hour, hut life could not lie restored.