Maori Drowned
A young Maori fisherman was drowned while fishing for whitebait in the Waikato River, at a small settlement near Tualcau on Tuesday. The victim was Mi-. Ileipi Marsh, aged about 20. of the Okahu Bay Maori Settlement, Auckland. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at the inquest. Failure to Enrol For failing to register in the first division of the general reserve a young Panakura truck driver, Gordon Smythe, was fined £2O by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M. The reservist’s brother and employer, John Francis Smythe, who was charged with employing an unenrolled (reservist, was fined £5 with costs, 10s. Gifts For Boy Hero On behalf of the children of the Presbyterian Sunday Schools cf the Dominion, a parcel containing chocolate and sugar, condensed milk, tea and cocoa has been despatched to Freddie Harrison, of Hendon, London, the six-year-old boy who saved his two sisters, aged 10 months and 3 years, when their home was desir iyed by bombs. The money came from interest on a large sum raised by the children for missions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 9 August 1941, Page 4
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177Maori Drowned Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 9 August 1941, Page 4
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