BROWNING ACCIDENTS.
! GIRL STEPS OVER LEDGE. [BY. TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION-] FOXTON. MondayA drowning accident occurred about 7.30 last evening near the wharf; the victim being a girl named Laura Henskie, 15 years of age. She was paddling in the water in company with a youug man named Irwin Wright, and slipped over a ledge. into deep water. She clung to Wright, but released her hold cndel water. Wright got oat in an exhausted condition. A young man named William Better saw the accident and dived several times, bu*, could not find the body owing to the muddy state ancLdepth of the water The police are dragging the river to recover the body.
BOT DROWNED IN DAM. [by. telegraph.—press association] PALMERSTON NORTH. Mondtf. Stanley Peter Jamieson, aged 8J years, was drowned Bt Tokomaru yesterday afternoou. Apparently the lad wenf; swimming in a dam. Nobody witnessed the accident j The boy's clothes were found on th( bank, and the body was recovered later.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17985, 10 January 1922, Page 4
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