TWO GIRLS DROWNED
WANGANUI RIVER FATALITIES ONE TRIES TO HELP THE OTHER. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, January 27. Two children, Cecily Lay, aged 10, and Elizabeth Alice McLean, aged 12, were drowned in tragic circumstances in th* Wanganui river to-day. The victims were bathing with a party of children, when the elder girl got into difficulties. The younger girl rushed in to help her out, and both got into a strong current and were drowned The accident occurred at a lonely spot opposite the Imlav freezing works. No one was about, nor for 20 minutes was help available. The girl McLean’s body was found in eight feet of water within half an hour, while the other girl’s body wa« recovered three hours hater in four fort of water. The children had been warned not to go bathing. Pour individuals havo been drowned at Wanganui within the past ten days.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 3
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