CHILDREN DROWNED
PRECIPITATED INTO DAM
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAWERA, 30th January
While playing with a wooden trough in a dammed creek at Taiporohcnui, about half a mile back from the road, two Maori children were drowned about noon to-day. The trough capsized and precipitated them into eight feet of muddy, reed-covered water. The children were Koroheke Timoti and Howard Pokau, both aged about 30 years.
With others the children were playiug on\ the bank of the creek when tivo commenced to push a wooden trough six feet long around the edge of the water. Howard Pokau'got into tho trough, and his companion gave it a push. Timoti reached out. to pull the trough back .to the bank, and ovcrbalr anced, capsizing it. Botli went headlong into the water, with the clumsy craft on top of them. One of tho Maori boya on the bank saw the pair in difficulties, and raced down to t!i< edge of the dam; Finding he could do nothing, the boy ran over to a farm about half a mile away for assistance. The two eliildrei? had disappeared by this, and were not found until nearly two hours lat«r.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 10
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193CHILDREN DROWNED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 26, 31 January 1930, Page 10
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