BROTHER & SISTER DROWNED
FALL INTO POOL IN GARDENS GIRL SLIPS AND PULLS BOY IN. Electric To^graph—Press Association DUNEDIN, March 23. Two children, brother and sister, were drowned in a pool in Woodhaugh Gardens shortly after midday to-day They were: MARION JOYCE McKEAGG, aged 12. NORMAN EARL McKEAGG, aged 9}. Their parents reside in Smith Street, Dunedin. The little girl was standing on a rock beside the pool, which is about loft, deep, and on putting one foot in she slipped and fell. Her brother put out a hand to save her but was pulled in. Both sank, rose again, and disappeared. Not till some time after, the bodies were recovered by two men, who dived for them. Artificial respiration by two medical men was of no a\ ail.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14091, 24 March 1939, Page 5
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