DROWNED IN CREEK.
BOY OF,£IVE YEARS.
TRAGIC END TO GAME.
SEARCH PARTY FINDS BODY.
[by telegraph.—own correspondent.] TOWAI, Sunday:
The five-year-old son of Mr. C. M. C. Going, of Maromaku. 29 miles from Whangarei, was drowned in a flooded creek yesterday afternoon. When the accident occurred the child was playing near the creek, which runs close to Mr. Going's home, with several younger children. The children did not raise the alarm for a considerable time.
A search party discovered the body today in about Bft. of water a quarter of a milo below the scene of the accident.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 8
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