HAND ABOVE SURFACE
DOUBLE DROWNING CLUE FATALITY IN CREEK [Per Pres# /*ssociation. ] GREYMOUTH, Nov. 24. Only the hand of a child reaching above a surface of what was apparently solid sawdust on the bank of a stream revealed the drowning of two children at Three Mile, Hokitika, on Saturday. The children who were cousins, were Alan Finch, aged 10 years* and James Finch, aged six years. They attempted to walk upon sawdust along the bank of the creek, evidently thinking the deposit had a solid foundation, whereas the sawdust overlav the water. The boys were not missed till evening, when a search showed the hand of the elder boy reaching just above the surface of the sawdust. The recovery of the other body is not yet reported. The parents live at Three Mile, near the creek where the drowning hap-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 26 November 1935, Page 7
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140HAND ABOVE SURFACE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 26 November 1935, Page 7
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