CHILD FALLS FROM WHARF
CORONER’S WARNING TO PARENTS (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NAPIER, June 22. A verdict that a three-year-old child, Loma Theyers, -died from shock from concussion of the brain and shock from immersion in water, was returned at an inquest at Napier this morning. On Sunday the father took the child fishing on the Napier wharf. The child wandered away with her sister, and fell off the wharf into the water. She was taken to the hospital and died the next morning. The Coroner issued a warning .to parents that the wharf was not a place to allow children to play about on.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 16
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