Small Boy Drowned in Hutt River
WENT BATHING ALONE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A three-year-old child, John Pound, only son of: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Pound* Lower Hutt, was drowned in the Hutt river near his parents’ home at five o’clock this afternoon. He apparently wandered down to the river, undressed, donned a bathing costume and got into the water which is five or six feet deep. A boy and girl, children of Mr. a:id Mrs. F. J. Tansley, 8 Mudie street, shortly after heard a sound from the river and saw the child Pound floating in mid-stream. A moment later he disappeared. They immediately raised the alarm. The body has not co far been recovered.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 2
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