DROWNING ACCIDENT AT NELSON
TWO GREYMOUTH GIRLS THE - VICTIMS. pjr.lt PRES? • ASSOCIATION' rOI’VRIf.KT * NELSON,. April, 18. A double drowning fatality occurred at-the Quarantine. Station, Tailuma, late yesterday afternoon, two little girls; sisters, Lilian Jessie Wilson and Mary Georgina Wilson, inmates of St. Andrew’s losing .their lives. .The two children, aged 8 .and 10, were , pushing a flat bottomed boat into the water when it got out of their depth, and being unable to swim were drowned. The bodies were not recovered. The police are searching. The. father resides at Denniston. LATER. The children, whose bodies have been, recovered, were natives of. Greymouth, and will he taken there for interment..
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West Coast Times, 19 April 1911, Page 4
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109DROWNING ACCIDENT AT NELSON West Coast Times, 19 April 1911, Page 4
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