ORPHAHS’ TRAGIC PLIGHT
JOURNEY TO NEW ZEALAND SUDDEN DEATHS OF PARENTS LONELY TRIP FROM AFRIOA By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.30 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 25. Two girls aged nine and seven, Diana and Rosemary Fetch, arrived at Sydney to-day by the liner Nestor They are ooing to New Zealand. Their father, formerly the manager of a large tobacco plantation in Nyassalaml, was stricken by malaria. He was dying when his wife was killed by lightning. The father then died as the result of filiock, leaving the orphans at the mercy of the world.
Friends located relatives at Te Kuiti, New Zealand. The children were eared for by passengers aboard the Nestor. Their grandfather, Mr. W. L. Fetch, met them here and will see to their welfare on the voyage to New Zealand.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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