Three Children Drowned
Mother Rescued Off Pier Near Melbourne (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.} Tteceived noon to-day. MELBOURNE, To-day. Three children were drowned to-day at Cowes, Phillip Island. The mother of the children', Mrs Ena McKenzie, aged 40. was rescued. A young man, Bryant West, saw the woman struggling in the water near the end of the pier and dived in and brought lier ashore. Later the . hody of Ronald McKenzie, aged five, was recovered, but the bodies of Ena, aged four, and Douglas, ngpd eight months, were washed out to sea.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 5
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93Three Children Drowned Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 5
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