A WorkSafe New Zealand official, watched by another official, examines a gate through which the boy is thought to have passed before drowning. Photo: Giordano StolleyPolice are calling on the public for sightings of a young boy in the hours before his death in a pond in Gore last month. Lachlan Paul Graham Jones (3) was found dead in a wastewater treatment pond late on Tuesday, January 29. Police today said they wanted to hear from anyone who had seen Lachlan on Salford St that evening between 8.45pm and 9.30pm. Lachlan was found in the pond about 11.15pm after a search by residents, police and LandSAR.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 16, 2019 22:52 UTC