TRAGEDY NEAR NELSON.
TWO CHILDREN DROWNED. LAST SEEN AT PLAY. BODIES FOUND IN LAGOON. SAD FATALITY AT TAHUNA. [BY TELEGRAPH. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON. Friday. Two children were the victims of a drowning accident at Tahuna to-day. They were William Noel Covey, aged 4 years, and Violet Joyco Bovey, aged 2, the only children of Mr. E. W Bovey, of Tahuna They were drowned in a lagoon between Muritai Street and Beach Road, but how thoy camo to enter the water is not known Their mother saw them playing in front of the house with a neighbour's children at about eleven o'clock. An hour later tho bodies were discovered >n the water.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 12
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111TRAGEDY NEAR NELSON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20058, 22 September 1928, Page 12
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