ROTORUA DROWNING
BOY OF SIX YEARS SLIP INTO DEEP LAKE i’- (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A six-year-old 'boy, Waharoa Cookson, a son of Mr. Albert Cookson, a Public Works Department ■ employee, was drowned at Rotorua yesterday afternoon when he slipped into a deep part of a small Jake near the Maori church at Ohmemutu while searching for frogs. The boy had been in the company of a girl, aged 11 years, whose attention to the boy’s danger was. called by his cries for help. Another small boy and a girl immediately went for assistance. Mr. William Whareaitu, well known as a. New Zealand champion swimmer, dived into (the take and brought the child’s body to the surface from a depth of about 20ft.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19897, 27 March 1939, Page 14
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