CHILD DROWNED
FELL INTO A CREEK. Press Association, NAPIER, February 10. The police received word this evening that Robert Mercer Hughes, seventeen months old, a son of Mr and Mrs Henry Hughes, had been found drowned in a creek at Puketitiri at 5.45 p.m. to-day. It appears the little chap fell through a broken bridge into the shallow creek. The body was found an hour and a half after tho child was missed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8653, 11 February 1914, Page 7
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