TWO BOYS DROWNED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19841, 31 January 1930, Page 13

TWO BOYS DROWNED.

TRAGEDY NEAR HAWERA. OTKC*d A.b»OdATIOJJ TKLEOBAM -) HAWERA, January 30. While playing with a wooden trough in a dammed creek at Taiporohenni, about half a mile back from the road, two Maori children wero drowned about noon to-day, when the trough capsized and precipitated them into eight feet of muddy reed-covered water. 'I he children were Korohckc Timoti and Howard l'okau, both aged about 10. years.

With others, the, children were playing ou the bank of the creek, when tbe two commenced to push a six-foot wooden trough around the edge of the water. Howard Pokau got into the trough and h\n companion gave it a push. Timoti reached out to pull the trough back to the hank and over balanced, capsizing it. Both went headlong into the water with the clnmay craft on top of them. One of the Maori boys on the hank saw the pair in diffl culties and raced down to the edge of the dam. Finding he could do nothing, the hoy ran over to a farm about half a mile away for assistance. The two children had disappeared by thin and were net found until nearly two hours later.