GIRL DROWNED.
BOYS' RESCUE ATTEMPTS.
MOTHER SAW ACCIDENT.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, this clay.
Before the eyes of her mother, Everell Marrion Cateley, aged 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Cateley, of Ohaupo, disappeared and was drowned while bathing in Lake Ngaroto, between Paterangi and Ohaupo. Other children »nd the child's mother saw the girl disappear, but thought at first that she was playing. As she did not reappear the alarm was given. Some older boys swimming in the vicinity hastened to the spot where the girl had last been seen and dived in an attempt to rescue her. They were unsuccessful and it was' two hours before the body was recovered. At an inquest held at Ohaupo before the coroner, Mr. G. A. Empson, a verdict was returned that deceased was accidentally drowned, no blame being attachable to anyone.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 308, 30 December 1935, Page 3
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