DOMINION NEWS.
CHILD FATALLY BURNT.
(by telegraph—press association.) PALAIERSTON N., Alay 19.
At the inquest on the circumstances surrounding the death of Daphne Irelle Doughty, aged four, tlie daughter of a Ivimbolton farmer, wlio died in the hospital on May 9 from shock, following extensive burns, the coronetreturned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. -\
The child put a piece of paper in.the kitchen fire. . . .When it ..burned her fingers she- dropped it in the' hearth, her nightdress ea'tchiiitr- alight-inflict-ing fatal burns. .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1926, Page 5
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83DOMINION NEWS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 20 May 1926, Page 5
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