MAORIS DROWNED
TWO BROTHERS LOSE LIVES
(United Press Association).
INVERCARGILL, This Day. The police have been advised ‘that two Maoris, Manna Davis (18) and Patani Davis (11), brothers, were drowned yesterday afternoon. The boat in which they wore crossing the Mataura River at Fortrose capsized through a rough cross wind catching it broadside on. The bodies have been recovered.
ANOTHER FATALITY MAORI BROTHER AND SISTER •DROWNED ' : TE KUITI, This Day. Two Native children, Turua Tukotalii (4) and Uma Rena Tukotalii (8) were drowned in the Manga ram a stream, six miles from Te Kuiti, late on Saturday afternoon. ‘ dft is surmised that they were spearing eels, when the boy fell into ten feet of water, and liis sister jumped in to save him, hut owing to tho steepness of the banks could not get out. A verdict of accidental drowning whs returned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 November 1923, Page 4
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142MAORIS DROWNED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 November 1923, Page 4
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