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bodies of a party of four who
were drowned in the New River estuary a week ago were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend the night netting flounders. When they did not return the next morning it was thought that they had been caught in a sudden storm which sprang up about midnight. * * # * JELLING on a concrete floor from a height of 13 feet from a ladder on which he was working at the Hillside workshops on Saturday, Mr. John Reid, a married man, of 40 Falcon Street, Roslyn, Dunedin, received head injuries from which he died at the Dunedin Hospital about 9 o’clock yesterday morning. ♦ * a * ,1 trustees of the Flock House Fund handed over, as a gift, on Saturday, to the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union the large twostoreyed building set in spacious and picturesque grounds at Awapuni as a rest home. The building was formerly a hostel for girls brought to New Zealand under the Flock House scheme.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1939, Page 3
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