BABY GIRL’S DEATH
FALL ON OPEN FIRE EVIDENCE AT INQUEST From Our Own Correspondent DARGAVILLE, Today. As a result of accidentally falling on an open fire on Tuesday, the I<-month-old child of Mr. Charles Powell, farmer, Maropiu, 15 miles from Dargaville, died on Saturday. Giving evidence at the inquest before the district coroner, Mr. J. A. McLean, mother said that when she returned from the milking shed, her eight-year-old daughter Iris, who was minding the child, informed her that her little sister had fallen on the fire. Witness found the child had burned her hand, one side of her face and the lower portion of her back. She seemed all right, and for the next two days was treated with oil. Early on Saturday morning witness found the child lying limp in her cot and called the doctor from Dargaville, but the child died before the doctor arrived.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 957, 28 April 1930, Page 14
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