DRANK KEROSENE
CHILD DIES IN HOSPITAL,
A DISTRESSING MISHAP,
(Special to “Northern Advocate.’*)
DARGAVILLE, This Day.
Whilst’Mrs Charles Powell was engaged in cleaning a carpet with kerosene yesterday, an infant daughter, aged about. 12 months, seized the uncorked bottle and, before the mother could stop it, swallowed a quantity of the liquid.
The child was rushed to the hospital at Te Ko.puru, but died last evening, -
The family has, been most unfortunate. Last winter their home and all their possessions were destroyed, -by fire. Some time previously another child died as the result of an accident.
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Northern Advocate, 29 October 1932, Page 11
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