DUTY OF PARENTS
TEACHING CHILDREN TO SWIM ADVICE BY CORONER (Per United Press Association) ft AUCKLAND, August 14. “ This is one of those cases occurring at fairly regular intervals in which children arc drowned because they cannot swim,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner, at the inquest into the death of Michael Allan Carter, aged 13, whose body was found in the Harbour on August 1. “ There is no doubt that this little boy, who left home to gather driftwood, fell into the water and was drowned,” the coroner continued. “It is a circumstance such as this that makes it a duty again to ur"e parents that children should learn to swim. It is a matter of life and death.” The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22650, 15 August 1935, Page 10
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