CHILD'S DEATH
VERDICT AT INQUEST
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NAPIER, This Day.
A verdict that a three-year-old child, Loma Theyers, died from delayed shock, and concussion of the brain was returned at an inquest 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 Hospital and died the following morning.
The Coroner issued a warning to parents that the wharf was not a place to allow children to play about.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 145, 22 June 1938, Page 13
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