ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
TWO GIRLS DROWNED. (Press Assaoaatiori.i I ■ - ... AUCKLAND, April 7. For a. second ( time within a week a. double drowning fatality has occurred iri the Dargavilie district. About 4 o’clock this afterrioon, two Maori sisters, Emiri and Piriti Edwards, aged ,10 and/. 6, daughters of Mr and Mrs ‘ John Edwards,- of Naunai settlement Northern. Wairoa river, slipped from the Naunai wharf. They were caught by a strong ebb tide and thrown' against the piles of the structure, where they clung- for some minutes; Only young children wore in the vicinity, anda, girl of 11 tried unsuccessfully to rescue the victims, who'-iwefe car: ried away and disappeared. On the previous Sunday, two men were drowned in Te Karaka Gorge, near Tangowahino.
Who pays the bill for the injured. Consult the Standard Insurance Company\ for full protection.—S. G. Northe. local manager. (Advt,.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12253, 8 April 1935, Page 5
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