DEATHS BY DROWNING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10672, 23 January 1911, Page 1

DEATHS BY DROWNING.

■j: .;.!. ■ :'■■?:■< 22. ; A yoxing man hamed Lester Carpenf ter, 24 years! df age, was drowned this irithe surf. He was in company'with." several com- r panionsy r who did theft- utmost to rescue; him, but he was carried out to sea-v; : ■■% Auckland, January 21;-J

A Maori girl named Polly Penekupa,; : three years.of age, was drowned in the Waika'to River, near Huntly. J'-Hers sister!. went for a swim, leaving' child asleep on the bank, and wh.jE;ri?sh!§ returned she found. Bad. two feet of water; arid;was^dfow^te-r1?;