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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 8

A little Maori boy, aged two years, was drowned near the old wrecked Hyderabad, on the Horowhenua beach, on Thursday last, says tbo Chronicle. Ho and ins father and mother and two-brothers, one older ami the other younger, were spending the day on the beach. The father and oldest boy wont further up the beach to collect pipis, leaving- the other children with their mother, who. a little later,left the children" asleep while she gathered the shell-iish in the other direction. She- returned shortly afterwards but to her distress found the body of the little boy floating in the water.

A MEETING of the General Public will be held in the Sandon Block Hall on SATURDAY, March !lth, at 2 p.m. to elect Gala Committee. JOHN MCNEIL, Chairman. /CONTRIBUTIONS of food for Lg the Marton Patriotic Show w'Jl be received at the Supper Room.of the Town Hall, on TUESDAY, March sth, from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. and at the Showground during Tuesday afternoon. E. MCGREGOR, 1 . M. BILL. Joint Hon. Secs. MARTON BOROUGH COUNCIL. Householders are reminded that water can be used for gardens (through a hose) between the hours of 5 p.m. and G p.m. daily if a person is in charge of such during the time it is being used. , . - A. H. KNIGGE, Town Clerk,