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U.S. MARINE DROWNED. P.A. ( OTAKI. Jan. 10. Corporal Robert Lange, U.S.M.C., was drowned while bathing at Otaki Beach on Sunday evening. Miss Ford went to the rescue and got into difficulties and had to be assisted ashore. The body has not been located. CHILD SUFFOCATED. INVERCARGILL, Jan. 9. The inadvisability of using kapoc ■pillows for infants was strongly emphasised bv a doctor and by the jury at an inquest into the death of Jeanette Winsome Mitchell, the 10-weeks-* old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Mitchell, Invercargill. The mother stated sihe had last seen the baby alive about 3 p.m. on January 5, when she was asleep in a bassinette. When she went to pick up the baby about 5.10 p.m. she found her lying 'face down with her head partly covered by the bed clothes. The child, wa s dead. Dr. D. R. Jennings stated the child had died apparently from, suffocation as a result of her burying •her head in a kapoc pillow. The pub-l lie should be informed of the danger of using kapoc pillows for young 'children. They were practically a death-trap. A verdict was returned that the child died on January 5, the 'cause of death being accidental suffocation ■
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Grey River Argus, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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