DROWNED AT A PICNIC.
RAFT WITH CHILDREN UPSET. BOY AND GIRL LOSE LIVES. LAUNCESTON, Nov. 5. Two children, Florence Powell, aged 15, and Jack Keating, 13, were drowned and many other children narrowly escaped when a raft was overturned on the river at the Perth picnic grounds. Baptist Sunday School children were taking rides on the raft when too many crowded at one end and caused it to be upset. Some of them were able to reach the shore and others were rescued by their parents The other two children were pinned beneath the raft, and their bodies were not recovered for half an hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 11
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