"ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15608, 14 May 1914, Page 8

"ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED."

GREY LYNN FATALITY.

THE NEED FOR A FENCE.

The inquest in connection with the death of the two small children, Richard aid Rachel Corban, who were drowned on Tuesday in a creek which flows into Cox's Creek, Grey Lynn, wa6 held at the mortuary vesterdav, before Mr. F. V. Frazer S.M. ' ' v: .:

Evidence was given by Mrs. Meyers, who lives near the scene" of the fatalib, as to having heard the mother of the children crving for help. Running over she found Mr.". Corban on the bank of th« creek. They stirred the 5 water with the branch of a tree and found the boy's body: ;...- Alfred Brady stated that he. found the girl's body beside the creek. Life was extinct, but he helped in the efforts made to restore respiration in the .boy. Dr. M. Hope was of opinion that , the children had been leaning over the bank, and had fallen into the • water, bn{ Constable Naughton's evidence was to th« effect that they had been walking together across the sewerage culvert, under which the creek runs, and that they had fallen off, one on either side. People were in the habit of using the culvert as. a bridge,. and he thought that steps 6hould be taken to prevent it- ...... .. y,,,. ,- : • A verdict of . accidental death was returned by the coroner. Though it was not suggested that, the children had approached from the Hinemoa Road side of the culvert it appeared that there was a danger, because there was no fence. Though it must be realised that children were apt to go through fences if frogs could be had. he considered that a - fence should be put up where it Was necessary.