CHILD DROWNED
Wanders To Creek At Rear Of House
By Telegraph—Press Association. Tininni. July 19. Margaret Anne Mackenzie, the 20-nionths-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mackenzie, Main North Road, Goral 1 dine, was drowned this morning in a creek which runs n’t the back of the house. . . , , . 'Phe mother was occupied in a dairy, and the child apparently went round the house and round the access to the creek where it is not fenced off. Only--10 minutes elapsed from the time the mother last saw the child to the time she found her lying face downward in the creek, the water in which was a little over a foot deep. At the inquest a verdict of irceidental drowning was returned.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 251, 20 July 1938, Page 3
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121CHILD DROWNED Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 251, 20 July 1938, Page 3
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