TWO CHILDREN DROWN.
PLAYING WITH TROUGH.
In A Dammed Creek.
CRAFT CAPSIZES-ON BOYS
HELP ARRIVES TOO LATE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HAWERA, Jan. 31.
Two Maori children were drowned yesterday while playing with a wooden trough which they were using as a boat in a dammed creek at Taiporohenui. The creek is about half a mile back from the road. The trough .capsized and they both fell into Bft. of muddy, reed-covered water.
The children were Koroheke Timati and Howard Pokau, both aged about 10 years. With others they were playing on the bank of the creek,! and commenced to push the trough, which was about 6ft. long, around the edge of the water. Howard Pokau got into the trough. His companion, Timati, gave it a push, and then reached out to.pull it back to the bank. He overbalanced and the trough capsized. Both went headlong into the water, with the clumsy eraft on top of them.
One of the Maori boys on the bank saw the pair,in difficulties and raced down to the edge of the dam. He found that he could dp nothing to save them, so he ran over to a farm, about half a mile away, for assistance. The two children had disappeared ! by this ;time and their bodies were not found until nearly, two hours later. \-
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17803, 31 January 1930, Page 5
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