DEATH OF INFANT BY CHOKING

Southland Times, Issue 23512, 19 May 1938, Page 6

DEATH OF INFANT BY CHOKING

GLASS BOTTLE STOPPER IN THROAT With a glass bottle stopper wedged in her throat, Beverley Dawn Hunt, infant child of Thomas and Ethel Hunt, Liddel street, suffocated and died at the home of her parents on Sunday afternoon. The child was lying in a perambulator in the backyard of the house, and it is thought that a baby brother, aged two years,’gave her the bottle stopper with which to play. The child’s mother went out of the house to see if the baby was comfortable and found her with the stopper in her throat. She tried to release the stopper, but was unable to do so, and the child died. An inquest was opened on Sunday and adjourned. HORSE WALKS OVER CHILD (United Press Association) OTAKI, May 18. The two-year-old child of Mr and Mrs Sage was accidentally killed at Te Horo last evening. The mother had placed the child on the ground to shut the gate and a horse walked over him, crushing his chest. CHILD STRUCK BY PASSING MOTOR-CAR (United Press Association) DARGAVILLE, May 18. A five-year-old child who, with its mother, Mrs A, Dropulich, alighted from a bus on the Te Kopuru main highway last evening was struck by a passing motor-car driven by J. A. Smith, a stock buyer. The child was taken to the Northern Wairoa Hospital suffering from serious head injuries and two broken thighs, its condition being serious. MAORI KILLED BY FALL OF GRAVEL (United Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH, May 18. While working in a pit at Mt Biggs, near Feilding, this afternoon a Maori, Peter Reweti, aged 29, was killed by a fall of gravel. Reweti came from the Hulls district.