PATHETIC ORPHANS
Tragic Loss of Parents in
Central Africa.
LONE VOYAGERS TO TE KTJITL
SYDNEY, August 25,
Diana and Eosemary Fetch, aged nine and seven respectively, arrived at Sydnev to-dav bv the liner Hestor. Thev
are going to New Zealand.
The father of the children formerly was manager of a iarge tobacco plantation in Nyassaland. Stricken by malaria he was dying when his wife was killed by lightning. The father died as a result of shock.
Friends located relatives of the two orphans at Te Kuiti and it was arranged to send the little girls out to them. They were looked after hy passengers on hoard the Hestor. Their grandfather, Mr. W. L. Fetch, met them here and will see to their welfare on the voyage to New Zealand.
FRIENDS WAITING.
RELATIVES IN KING COUNTRY,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TE KUITI, this dav. The father of the orphans on the B«tor was a son of Mr W. L. Fetch, was farming m Tedding xor many years, and is now retired and residing with his daughter, Mrs. H. P. Cooke, Te f™?-' 3 ? e he taker care of by their aunfc and grandiather.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 7
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