MAORI CHILD DROWNS WHILE PARENT WASHES
FATALITY AT WOODLEIGH (From Our Own Correspondent) HUNTLY, To-day. A fatality occurred at Woodleigh on Friday, when a Maori child named David Rawiti, a£ed two years, was drowned in the Mangapiko Stream. The child's step-mother, Airs. Hull, a native, had started washing operations on the riverbank, when she missed the little one and promptly instituted a search. She found the body floating face downwards in the creek. Resuscitation methods were resorted to, but in vain, life being extinct.
An inquest was held by Air. E. A. Jones, J.P., yesterday, and a verdict of accidental drowning was returned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 330, 16 April 1928, Page 11
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