DOUBLE DROWNING.
CHILDREN INVOLVED. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 23. Two children, brother and sister, were drowned in a pool in Woodhaugh Gardens shortly after midday to-day. they were Marion Joyce McKeagg, aged 12, and Norman Earl McKeagg, aged 9.}. Their parents reside in Smith. Street Dunedin. I lie little girl was standing on a rock beside the pool, which is alrou.t 15ft deep, and on putting one foot in she slipped and fell. Her brother put out a hand to save her but was pulled in. Both sank, rose again and disappeared.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 3
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93DOUBLE DROWNING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 3
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