CHILD DROWNED
TRAGEDY AT CARTERTON. FALL INTO CREEK. A drowning accident occurred on Thursday afternoon at 4.45 o’clock at Swamp Road, Carterton, when Barry Peter Culfield, aged 2 years and 2 months, son of Mr and Mrs Culfield, share milkers, Swamp Road, lost his life. It appears that his sister and a young brother had taken the child in a push chair along the road, and were looking over the rail of a bridge watching leaves floating down the creek. The child was lifted from the push chair to look over the bridge railing, when he overbalanced ar*. fell into the creek and was drowned. His body was recovered by his father from 3ft. 6in. of water ten minutes after the accident. An inquest was held at the Carterton Cobrthouse yesterday before the district coroner, Mr L. J. Taylor, when a verdict of accidental drowning wps returned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 2
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