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TRAGIC DEATH OF SMALL CHILD WMILE PLAYING Sydney, Nov. 19. Dorothy Carter, 9, of Smith Street Balmain, was looking for "baby -rabs" yesterday afternoon, when she vas drowned in a channel c.onnecting White Bay with the local powernouse. The only eye-witness of the tragedy was a child, Hazel Bisat, who ran 500 yards, uphill, to inform the mother. Several men rushed to the spot, and dived in, but could not find the body- Police then took up dragging operations, and worked fruitlessly until a late hour. The channel is fenced in, but Dorothy crawled through a small hole and slipping on the mossy bank, fell ;nto 10 feet of water. From the other side of the fence, Hazel, attracted by a cry for help, «w her playmate struggling in the water. "Then her head went under, and I did not see her any more," Hazel told the police. On her way to summon help, Hazel saw a man, near the spot where the drowning occurred, but as she had been warned never to speak to a strange man, she ran past him, valuable minutes being lost before would-be-rescuers reached the scene.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 392, 29 November 1932, Page 6
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194FELL INTO CANAL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 392, 29 November 1932, Page 6
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