DOUBLE DROWNING NEAR HOKITIKA
BOY COUSINS FALL ISTO J CREEK IPRSSS ASSOCIATION Tgt ff.«i» i GREYMOUTH, November 24. A double drowning occurred on Saturday afternoon at Three HQe, near Hokitika. Two boys, Alan Finch, aged 10, and James Finch, aged six, who were cousin& walked upon same sawdust along the bank of a creek, evidently thinking the deposit had a solid foundation, whereas the sawdust overlay water. The boys were not missed till the evening, when a search showed the hand of the elder boy reaching just above the surface of the sawdust. The recovery of the other body is not yet reported. The parents of the boys live nearby.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21639, 25 November 1935, Page 13
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DOUBLE DROWNING NEAR HOKITIKA
Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21639, 25 November 1935, Page 13
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