SMALL CHILD DROWNED
MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY FALL INTO SUNKEN CISTERN (From Our Own Correspondent.) TE PUKE, Monday. A sad accident occurred at Pongakawa on Saturday, when Norman Watson, aged two and a-half years, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Watson, was found drowned in an underground cistern by his mother on Saturday afternoon, at their farm at Pongakawa. Mrs. Watson noticed that the boy did not enter the house with her, and on going to look for him she found the cistern uncovered and the child in the water. All efforts at restoring respiration failed. An inquest was held at Pongakawa on Sunday, when the coroner returned a verdict of accidental drowning.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 1
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