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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4935, 5 February 1926, Page 3

A sitting o f thq Magistrate’s Court will be held at Paeroa oji Monday. The Thames Hospital and Charitable Aid Board will hold' its regular meeting on Monday. A nurse left a 14-months ; old child in a perambulator outside a London shop while she went inside to make a purchase. When she returned the child had disappeared. She called tiie doorkeeper and a policeman, and 'together they searched the neighbour hood for the missing child. Then the nurse, in a state of great anxiety, rang up the child’s father, more police were notified, and a wider search was begun. It was assumed that ,the child h,ad been stolen by a woman passerby. Some hours later the nurse and the child’s father returned home and found to their astonishment that the child was in the house. The explanation was that .the mother, when pasting the shop, saw her child and took it to an adjoining shop to buy some sweets. When she came back the nurse, wheeling the empty perambulator, was searching the adjoining street©.