DEATH OF CHILD AND MOTHER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 99, 6 February 1948, Page 3

DEATH OF CHILD AND MOTHER

SHOCKS FROM POWER LINE (P.A.) PAEROA, February 5. A mother and her young daughter were accidentally killed by electricity at Paeroa on Wednesday morning. They were:

Mrs Constance Mary Wilkinson, aged 29, wife of Mr Samuel Norman Wilkinson, railway traffic assistant, of Paeroa, Loraine Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged six. The girl andanother of Mr and Mrs Wilkinson’s children were playing on the roof of a railway house in Ainslie Road, when Loraine grasped the electric wire leading into the house. Mrs Wilkinson, who saw her fall, climbed to the roof, caught hold of the child and was. also killed.

A neighbour who saw the accident called!" to the second child to keep away. He was able to get the two victims clear of the wire and artificial respiration was applied but without success.

The little girl was the eldest of a family of five children.

CHILD DROWNED BODY FOUND IN WATER TROUGH (P.A.) WHANGAREI, February 5. A two-year-old child was drowned ill a watering trough on her parents’ farm at Wharekohe, near Whangarei, yesterday morning. She was Glennys Florence Langman, daughter of Mr and Mrs M. G. Langman. About 9 o’clock the child left the house to play outside, but shortly afterwards was missed. Mrs Langman and another daughter went to look for her. She was found lying face down in a circular concrete trough in about 2ft of water. The child had apparently fallen in while playing with some toy boats. A doctor was called and artificial respiration was applied without success.