DIED FROM BURNS.
CHILD FELL INTO OPEN FIRE. WOUNDS TREATED WITH OH*. COLLAPSED FOUR DAYS LATER. (By -Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") DARGAVILLE, this day. As the result of accidentally falling into an open fire on Tuesday, a child aged '17 months, the daughter of Mr. Chas. Powell, farmer, of Moropiu, 15 miles from Dargaville, died on Saturday. Giving evidence at the inquest before the -district coioner, Mr. J. McLean, the mother stated that when she returned from the. milking shed her eight-year-old daughter Iris, who had been minding the child, informed her that her little sister had fallen in the fire.. The child was found to have been burnt on the hand, the side of the face, and tlie lower portion of the back, and was seemingly little the worse. During the next couple of days the burns were treated with oil. Early on Saturday morning, however, the parents found her lying limp in her cot. Tliey called a doctor from Dargaville, but the child expired before the doctor arrived.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 98, 28 April 1930, Page 8
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