“Baby Was Least Disturbed”

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30562, 3 October 1964, Page 1

“Baby Was Least Disturbed”

A Bryndwr mother, while having dental treatment yesterday in an upstairs surgery, left her four-month-pld son in his pram in a recess at the foot of the stairs. When she came down baby and pram had disappeared. The mother searched the immediate area in growing panic, then telephoned the police. Three patrol cars packed with policemen were sent to the Wairakei-Greers roads shopping centre, and an intensive hunt for the missing baby started. . About an hour after the first alarm, the proprietor of a supermarket about 100 yards from the dental rooms told the Papanui police that a baby in a pram had been abandoned in his store. A five-year-old boy and an

eight-year-old girl, it was subsequently discovered, had been playing outside the dentist’s rooms.

They decided to take the baby, for a walk. They pushed the pram round several blocks and then pushed it into the supermarket. They left the baby and pram in a corner of the supermarket. Shortly afterwards, they got into .trouble with the proprietor and ran from the store. The assistants in the Store did not notice the baby and pram until some time later. The mother was most relieved to get her son back safe and sound. “It was quite a flap while it lasted,” a police officer commented. “The baby was seemingly the least disturbed.”