MAORI BOY DROWNED
' A six-year-old deaf and dumb Maori boy, William Pu, was drowned in a creek at Whananaki on Tuesday night, states a Whangarei correspondent. The boy went with his father, Mr. Nathan Pu, a farmer,-to the milking-shed at 4.30 p.m., and at about 5.30 he, with an older brother, aged seven, was looking after cows feeding near the shed.
William indicated that he was going fishing in a creek which runs close to his home. He was seen by Mrs. Ferguson, a neighbour, walking up the stream, and she signalled to him to go home. He was then carrying a fishing line. The boy . turned back, and that was the last time he was seen alive.
As the boy had not returned home at 7 o'clock a search was made, and his fishing line was found on the bank of a deep pool close to his home. The body was discovered among logs and debris at the side of the pool in about 6ft of water. There were abrasions on the forehead and face, and it is assumed that the boy struck his head on a log when he fell from the bank.
An inquest was held by the District Coroner, Mr. G. H. Morrish, who returned a verdict that the boy was found drowned, but that there was no evidence to show how he had got into the water.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 15
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