TRAGIC DROWNING
WIDOW AND FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, June 27. A widow and orie young child were drowned and three other of her six young children are believed to have been drowned in the Waihopai river, on the outskirts of Invercargill, on Saturday night They are:— Emma Mcßae Atkinson Robertson, aged 37, the mother. Struan Robertson, aged four. James Robertson, aged five. Nan Robertson, aged three. Graham Robertson, aged two. Mrs Robertson’s husband, Mr James Robertson, died 10 months ago. Early on Saturday evening, according to the police, Mrs Robertson took the children for a walk to the nearby bridge, dropped each child into the river, and then followed them herself. The eldest child, Joan Robertson, aged seven, and one of the twin, boys, Alister, aged four, were able to scramble ashore. . The others are reported to have sunk immediately or tohave, been carried downstream by the fast-running current of the flooded river. The police recovered the bodies of the mother and one of the children, Struan, by dragging to-day.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23985, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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171TRAGIC DROWNING Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23985, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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