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ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. At the inquest on Florence Dommett (a school teacher, aged twenty-three 1 ) and Vernon Charles Ferguson (a pupilj aged nine), who were drowned in the river near the Komako School while bathing yesterday, evidence was given that the teacher was instructing the pupils in swimming. When she [took Ferguson into deep water the appeared to faint. The bodies were recovered, but resuscitative jmcthods failed. The coroner returned a verdict that the deaths were ■ due to accidental drowning. He commented that where pai'ties of children went bathing .there should be more .than one jidult present in case of accident. »-—Palmerston North Press Association message. HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXERS. A T EW YORK, December 10— A Boston message states that Sharkey to-day agreed to the terms for a championship bout with Schmeling at New York next pummel*. His manager stated that Sharkey' had also agreed to meet .the winner of the proposed Car-nera-Stribling bout at Miami in February. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sale reported this afternoon:— Okarito, 4s lid.
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Evening Star, Issue 20664, 11 December 1930, Page 20
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