TO STAY IN N.Z.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 7

TO STAY IN N.Z.

PARTY ARRIVES FROM

ENGLAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 4,

A party of about 30 women and children from Britain arrived recently at New Plymouth to stay in New Zealand for the duration of the war. Many are New Zealanders who have left husbands in Britain.

There were 151 women and children, some of whom were babies of a few months, aboard the ship when she left Britain, but about 120 left the ship in Australia. The remainder disembarked at New Plymouth for various destinations in the Dominion. These reported an uneventful voyage except on one occasion a few days before escorting ships left the convoy, when passengers were ordered below. They saw nothing, but they believed a submarine had been sighted, for depth charges were dropped.

CHILD DROWNED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

INVERCARGILL, September 4.

Phyllis Genevieve McDonald, twin infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. McDonald, 96 Grey Street, was drowned when she fell into the Waihopai River at the foot bf Grey Street this afternoon. She was three years and 10 months old. Phyllis McDonald, her twin sister, and another little girl were playing on the bank of the river when Phyllis fell in and was drowned in water between three and four feet d-2p.