INFANT KILLED
FATALLY SCALDED IX COPPER. MASTERTOX, April 26. Suspended by his jumper from a ,tap over ~a copper containing hot water, a boy named Peter Walter tPorry aged two years and two months, wfus fatally scalded. Apparently the boy climbed up th, t . tubs on to the copper, the lid of which capsi/ed with hjs weight, his jumper catching in tile bap. His mother heard his screams, and found the bov with his logs and the lowp r part of liis trunk in the hot water. He was rushed to the hospital, where death occurred to-day, six days after the accident. The parents, Mr .and Mrs E. W. Perry, .reside at Tnrarua Street, Masterton,
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1933, Page 5
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115INFANT KILLED Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1933, Page 5
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