DROWNED IN SHEEP DIP
CHILD'S TRAGIC FATE
DISCOVERY BY MOTHER [hy tei.egraph—own correspondent] MORRIXSVILLE. Friday The drowning occurred in a sheep dip yesterday of Basil John Orr, aged two years and nine months, second son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Orr, of Hoe-o-tainui, 16 miles from Morrinsvillc. The child had been playing with older children during the afternoon. As 1 ho did not return with the others Mrs. Orr went to call him. Sho found he had fallen into the sheep dip. .She applied artificial respiration, hut without avail, and telephoned for Dr. Morrow, of Morrinsvillc. The child had evidently crawled between the rails protecting the dip
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 8
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