BATHING FATALITY
TWO YOUNG LADIES DROWNED (United Press Association./ HAMILTON, This Day. A shocking bathing fatality resulting in the death of two Hamilton girls is reported from Ocean Beach, neat 'Raglan. A party of eight motored ifrorn, Hamilton, reaching the beach m the afternoon. The two men of the party, Williams and Darwin, undertook to boil the billy while the remainder went bathing. In about a quarter of an hour the men on shore heard cries and saw the bathers in distress and being earned out by the undertow. One bather, Chainey, managed to pull another., Scott, to a place of safety. The inert on shore rushed into the water lind at great risk managed to 'bring Misses Kingston and Adele Chainey to shore in a stale oi collapse. Darwin went hack and managed get within a few yards of Miss Winnie Chainey, when ho himself got into trouble and readied the shore exhausted. Miss Chainey. who was aged twenty-two, was carried out to sea, and diowned. Minnie Stevenson, twentyone, had disappeared with ‘the first big swirl and nothing was seen of her after her first scream. The fatality has easl_ great gloom over the town. Both girls were very popular in musical and social circles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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206BATHING FATALITY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5
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