Infant Drowned
FALLS INTO FISH POND. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. About five minutes after being missed, John Charles McNeill, aged 11} months, was found drowned at midday yesterday when his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry McNeill discovered his body in a fish pond in their front garden in Carrington Road. Efforts to resuscitate the infant were unavailing. The child was playing about the garden with other members of the family when he disappeared. A search was begun immediately and he was found lying face upwards in less than 18 inches of water. The boy was unable to walk properly and it is surmised he crawled to the pond and raised himself to the top of the ledge about two feet high and toppled over as ho was watching tho fish.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 57, 9 March 1937, Page 7
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133Infant Drowned Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 57, 9 March 1937, Page 7
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