CANOE FATALITY
TWO MEN DROWNED IN KAWHIA HARBOUR. Tragedy overtook a party of four Maoris when an old native canoe in which they were returning from, a football match at Kinohaku, near Kawhia, capsized in a tidal river in the upper reaches of the Kawhia Harbour about 7.30 p.m. on Saturday. Two of the natives were drowned, and the two, others were exhausted when they reached the shore. The victims were:— John Cunningham, aged about 21 single, of Owhiro, and formerly of Taranaki. George Kara, aged 24, single of Owhiro. The party which consisted of Cuningham, Kara, and two other Maoris, John Tikina, aged 29, and Tom Reihana, aged 22, left Kinohaku after the two former had participated in a football match. They set out for their homes at Owhiro, on the tidal river, about ten miles from Kawhia Heads. When the canoe capsized the river was in. high tide, which would make the width about two chains.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3899, 10 May 1937, Page 4
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