SAD FATALITY
MOTHER LOSES HER LIFE. ATTEMPTS TO RESCUE DROWNING DAUGHTER. Per Press Association. 1® AiWAMUTU, March 23. .A drowning fatality is reported from Te Kawa, eight miles south of .Te Awnmutu. It appears that a number of bathers yesterday afternoon assembled at a favoured- bathing place in the Waipa river. After most of the party had returned homewards two young ladies named (Neal were having a. final swim when one got into difficulties due to the stiff current. The other sister rushed to the rescue, and got her safely to the far bank. Looking round Mies NCal could see nothing of her mother, who had been sitting on the hank, and the mother’s -hat was seen floating in. the stream. An alarm was given, and a search made, but no trace could he found. It is assumed that she plunged into the water when the elder daughter was in difficulties, and was drowned. Dragging operations are in progress, but at latest advice the body had not been recovered.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12095, 24 March 1925, Page 5
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