TRAGEDY AT A PICNIC
TWO CHILDREN DROWNED.
TINNED BENEATH A RAFT.
(United Press Association.)
(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) LAUNCESTON, November 5. Florence Powell (15 years of age) and Jack Keating (13) were drowned, while many other children narrowly escaped when a raft overturned on the river at the Perth picnic grounds. The Baptist Sunday school children were taking rides on a raft, but too many crowded at one end, and caused it to upset. Some were able to Teach the shore, and others were rescued by parents. The boy and girl, however, wove pinned bcneatli the raft. Their bodies were not recovered: for half an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20867, 6 November 1929, Page 9
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