TWO YOUNG CHILDREN DROWNED
Car Plunges Into Stream OVERTURNS IN TWO FEET OF WATER By Telegraph.—Press Association Hastings, January 20. A seven-year-old boy, George, and a six-months’ old baby, Annie, children of Mr. and Mrs. G. Houlton. Kahnranaki district, were killed when a cat driven by the father crashed through the railings of a small bridge on the Tuki Tuki Road, three miles oust Clive, and plunged into the stream late on Saturday night. Mrs. .Ho'.l'ton was later admitted to the Napier Hospital with back injuries, but her condition is not serious. Both the victims of the tragedy met their death by drowning. The car, in plunging into the stream, overturned and pinned them beneath it when the hood collapsed. Mr. Houlton and a daughter aged eleven years were uninjured. Fortunately, some time after the accident, two other ear parties came along, and noticing the rail of the bridge torn away, made investigations, with the result that they were able to extricate the. other members of the party. The stream is narrow, a little over eight feet wide and two feet deep.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 99, 21 January 1935, Page 10
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