ORPHANS ON LINER
TRAGIC DEATHS OF PARENTS. RELATIVES LOCATED IN TE KUITI. (Ucited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.; SYDNEY, Aug. 25. Two girls aged nine and seven, Diana and Rosemary Fetch, arrived at Sydney to-day by the liner Nestor. They are going to New Zealand. Thenfather, formerly the manager of a large tobacco plantation in N.yassaland, was stricken by' malaria. He was dying when his wife was killed by lightning. The father then died as the result of shock, leaving the orphans at the mercy of tlio world. Friends located relatives at To Kuiti, New Zealand. The children were c-arcd for by passengers aboard the Nestor, and their grandfather, Mr W. L. Fetch, met them here and will see to their welfare on ihe voyage to New Zealand.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 6
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128ORPHANS ON LINER Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 6
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