CHILD SCALDED
(Press Assn.-
SUSPENDED BY JUMPER IN COPPER OF HOT WATER
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
Masterton, Wednesday. Suspended by his jumper from a tap over a copper containing hot water, a boy, Peter Walter Perry, aged two years and two months, was fatally scalded. Apparently the boy climbed up tbe tub and on to the copper, the lid of which capsized with the weight, the jumper catching the tap. His xnother heard screams and found the boy with his legs and lower part of his trunk in the water. He was rushed to hospital where death occurred yesterday "six days after the accident. His father, Mr. E. W. Perry, resides in Tararua Street, Masterton.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 516, 27 April 1933, Page 5
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114CHILD SCALDED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 516, 27 April 1933, Page 5
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