LOST FOR THREE DAYS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3015, 25 March 1926, Page 3

LOST FOR THREE DAYS.

A STRAYING CHILD’S EXPERIENCE.

Myra McGill, aged five years, who strayed from the Tahuna Sands, Nelson, on Wednesday afternoon while attending a picnic with Convent school children, was found at about four o’clock on Saturday afternoon just inside the golf grounds, at Tahunanui. The child had been three days and three nights in the.open, and except for weakness, due to lack of food and water, was little the worse for hei unenviable experience. Ellen and Thirza Dixon, twin daughters of Mr. J. B. Dixon, of Tahunanui, were responsible for finding the child. They were passing through the golf grounds, when one saw the child among some gorse down a bank near the bridge just inside the grounds. It is somewhat remarkable that the child was not discovered before, as search pai - ties had been out since Wednesday afternoon. It is thought the child must have kept close to her “bed during the period she was missing. The spot, though well hidden, was quite close to the road leading up to the golf house. Dozens of people must have passed to and fro during the three days.

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