{"id":4773,"date":"2023-05-23T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2023-05-23T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:30:19","slug":"memorial-park-fountain-tragedy-tauranga-city-council-rejected-safety-improvements-more-than-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Park fountain tragedy: Tauranga City Council rejected safety improvements more than 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A former council manager who tried making Tauranga\u2019s Memorial Park water fountain safer more than 20 years ago believes \u201csomething has to be done\u201d after a child died in it at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Geoff Canham\u2019s comments follow a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/police-responding-to-an-incident-at-memorial-park-in-tauranga\/ASBWXZECQFCDDOFSJOFD7SKO4I\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0young child\u2019s drowning in Memorial Park\u2019s fountain\u00a0<\/a>on Sunday. Police said emergency services responded about 9.50am and found an unresponsive child. CPR was started but the child could not be revived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A woman who was there at the time of the tragedy says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/woman-calls-for-memorial-park-fountain-safety-improvements-after-child-drowns\/G34NE7V6LBFWRD6I6TRUTZCDJY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she has witnessed other children get into difficulty at the park\u2019s fountain and says it should no longer be in use.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In 2002, a child nearly drowned in the fountain &#8211; sparking a Tauranga City Council staff proposal to reduce the depth at the centre of the fountain by introducing a two-layer concrete ring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former council manager who tried making Tauranga\u2019s Memorial Park water fountain safer more than 20 years ago believes \u201csomething has to be done\u201d after a child died in it at the weekend. Geoff Canham\u2019s comments follow a\u00a0young child\u2019s drowning in Memorial Park\u2019s fountain\u00a0on Sunday. Police said emergency services responded about 9.50am and found an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}