CHILD POISONED.
SWALLOWS WEED POISON (P.A.) HAMILTON, This Day. A child was fatally poisoned on a farm at Motumaoho near Morrinsville, yesterday. She was Cynthia Ellen MoQuoid, aged six years, daughter of Ml* and Mrs P. S. McQuoid, of Quarry Road, Motumaoho. Her father was milking at the time after being engaged in eradicating ragwort and had a bottle, of tea, and another bottle containing weed poison in a bag. It is assumed that the child drank the poison in mistake for tea. She was rushed to a doctor’s resident in Morrinsville but died shortly after arrival.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 44, 1 December 1944, Page 3
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