CHILD DROWNED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 175, 17 March 1932, Page 4

CHILD DROWNED

WANDERED AWAY AND J SLIPPED INTO 1 STREAM | A distressing fatality occurredj the Waititi Stream shortly i noon yesterday, when Adam Wl aue, the infant grandson of tne tj Whakau e Matahire, of Waititi, | living with his mother, Mrs. l1f Whakaue, at the Waititi Pa> 1 found drowned in the stream. 1 Apparently the child, who wasCJ two years of age, wandered 31 while playing and slipped ^° J water. His absence was not not| for about a quarter of an hour his mother weut in search of nitt| made the tragic discovery. J An dnquest will probably be °E| ed to-day. 1 The child's home stands, ®J bank of the stream which at twsj ticular point is five to six fee j and with a strong current. The «| adjacent to the house is ab° J f eet high, and the little toddler I have toppled over this into tbeJVj tha,-ratherjthctcjb,UltC(djnhzmb j When Mrs. Whakaue missea j ; boy and went in search of hi®! : attention was attracted by s°®eJ ' ject floating in the stream. ^7] 1 to the bank, she perceived tlia ! object as the body of her son. | Her cres were answered by | - roha Riki, an aged Maori who PJ 5 ed into the water and JraggeJ : the child, but lif e appeared to J 1 - ready extinct when the body « J ) covered. Dr. Bertram was im» . E ely summoned but the child wa . on his arrival. _ - tafefe.i- ...