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DOUBLE DROWNING TWO HOKITIKA CHILDREN (Per Press Association;. GREYMOUTH, Nov. 23. A double drowning occurred on Saturday afternoon at the three-mile near Hokitika. Two boys, cousins, Alan Finch, aged 10, and James Finch, aged 6, walked on sawdust along the bank of a creek, evidently thinking the deposit had a solid foundation, whereas the sawdust was just lying on the top of the water. The boys were not missed until the 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 has not yet been reported. The parents reside nearby. BOY’S DEATH BY DROWNING GALLANT RESCUE ATTEMPT (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 24. While fishing with two companions from a jetty at Governor’s Bay,. James Herbert McFaul, aged 14, Whiteleigh street, Addington, fell into the sea and was drowned. McFaul was walking backwards on the jetty when he fell. One boy threw in a lifeboy,, and the other, James Kevin, aged 12, stripped and went to assist McFaul. Kevin managed, after a hard struggle to bring McFaul to rocks on the shore, but McFaul was dead. Resuscitation was tried for am hour without avail.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 274, 25 November 1935, Page 6
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