LITTLE BOY DROWNED IN VAT.
STRAYED INTO SOAP FACTORY. (By Telegraph—Press Association ) AUCKLAND, This Day. A three-year-old boy, George Booth Beddingfield, was found drowned on Sunday in a vat of liquid tan at the soap factory of Wamock Bros., Ltd., Grey Lynn. George and his brother !toy, aged five, left their parents' home in Summer Street, Ponsonby, at 10 a.m. When they failed to return at dinner time the parents made a search. It appears tint the boys climbed under a broken door at. the back of the soap factory. Gorge's body was recovered by the factory foreman from a large vat filled with liquid. The depth was about 4-h feet. He applied artificial ■respiration, but without success.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 October 1927, Page 5
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