Police are investigating after a baby left in a hot car while his mother was at the TAB was rescued by passersby in the Tauranga.
The alarm was raised when the little boy's older sister asked if her mother was in a bar opposite the TAB in Papamoa.
The bar manager, James Cullen, told Stuff they checked the bar. Then while taking the girl across the road to look in the Papamoa TAB, he noticed her baby brother, who could not have been more than five months old, crying inside the hot car.
Members of the public opened the car doors to provide relief for the baby, and Mr Cullen found the child's mother in the TAB.
"I told her to get out and go now. She puffed up her chest a bit and got a bit vocal but we soon escorted her off," he said.
Donna McLeod, who helped the baby, said he had sweat running down his face "and his hair was soaked".
"When the mother came out she yelled at us. Then she put the baby in the front seat with her and just drove off."
Police told Stuff they were alerted to the incident, but the mother had left before they arrived, and follow-up inquiries would be made.
Yesterday an Auckland man got supermarket staff who rescued a little boy from a hot car parked at Silverdale.
And on Tuesday a witness alerted a woman that her baby had been left in a hot car parked outside shops at Ahuriri in Napier.
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