KOMAKO DROWNINGS
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST ( Per Pri sk Association.) PALMEKSTON N.. this day. At the inquest concerning the deaths of Florence Dummctt, 23, n school teacher, and Vernon Charles Ferguson, nine, a pupil, who were drowned in the river near Komako School, while bathing Yesterday, evidence was given that the teacher ' was instructing the pupils in swimming. When she took Ferguson into deep water she appeared to faint, both being in difficulties. The bodies were recovered, but resuscitative methods failed.
The coroner returned a verdict I hat the deaths were due to accidental drowning, and commented, that where parties of children went bathing there should be more than one adult present in case of accident.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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116KOMAKO DROWNINGS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17440, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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