BABY DROWNED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 383, 18 November 1932, Page 4

BABY DROWNED

AT NGAKURU BLol BODY DISCOVERED i;| TWO FEET OF I WATER I FELL FROM PLANKS I A sad case of drowning oeel at the Ngakuru settlement ear]J terday afternoon, the victimy Selwyn Heywood, aged 18 mJ the son of Mr. and Mrs. StanlJ Heywood. 1 ? In a statement to the poliJ father, who is employed by the*| cultural Department on the J ment, said that when returnicl work at about 1.20 p.ni,, he s'J child playing on the grass outsiM shack, which is situated abo^B chains from a ereek which cail |good deal of water and is fotj wide. 1 Shortly afterwards he wasi by a girl, Rona Lowry, and itifi that the child was missing an*l his wife and other helpers werJ

ing a search. He immediatelyji the searchers and nn examij was m'ade of the creek, whicil spanned by two planks. | After a systematic search h| iced one of the helpers, Mr, 1 Hutchins, stoop down arid diJ body of the child out of thej which at this spot carried iwi of water.' Althotigh littl'e sil life was apparent, respirationl ods were resorted to for two J quarter hours, but the child fal revive and when- Dr, W. S. 1 arrived at about 4 p.m. he cotfl pronounce life extinct. | It is thought that the chill tempted to cross the creek oi planks and ifi- doiiig so fell itil stream below. |