ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
CHILD DROWNED IN DAM. (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, November 7. A four-year-old boy, Francis Taylor, was drowned in a dam on his parents’ property at Taraki this afternoon. His father, Mr H. M. Taylor, was working in a field near the dam, and his mother was not 200 yards away. The children had been in the habit of puddling in the shallow water. The body was found by a farm hand, an attempt at resuscitation being unsuccessful.
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Southland Times, Issue 22473, 8 November 1934, Page 8
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81ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Southland Times, Issue 22473, 8 November 1934, Page 8
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