CHILD DROWNED IN CREEK AT KAIKOURA.
(Special to the “Star.”) KAIKOURA, March 16.
Ernest Henry Slape, aged one year and nine 'months, son of Ivano Slape, of Beach Road, Kaikoura, was drowned yesterday afternoon in a creek at the rear of the house. The child had wandered away after dinner, and when Miss H. Burney, sister of Mrs Slape, looked for the child later she could not find him. On running down to the creek she found the body in the water against a floodgate. Artificial resuscitation was tried without success, and Dr Withers, who arrived quickly on the scene, pronounced life extinct. An inquest will be held this evening.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 8
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