DROWNED IN LIQUID SOAP
FATE OF THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY
A threc-ycar-old boy, George Booth Bcddingtou, was found drowned in a vat. of liquid soap in the factory of Wa-mock, Brothers, Ltd|.,' Auckland. George and his brother Roy, aged five, left their parents’ home in Summer .Street, Ponsonby, in the morning, and when they failed to return their parents .made a search.
It appears that the boys climbed under a broken door at the back of the soap factory. George’s body was recovered by the factory foreman from a large vat of liquid soap about 41 feet deep. He applied artificial respiration without success.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 5 October 1927, Page 4
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102DROWNED IN LIQUID SOAP Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 5 October 1927, Page 4
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