BROTHER AND SISTER DROWNED
Fall Into Pool in Gardens
GIRL SLIPS AND PULLS
BOY IN By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 23. Two children, brother and sister, were drowned in a pool ip Woodhaugh Gardens shortly after midday today. They were: — Marion Joyce McKeagg, aged 12. Norman Earl McKeagg, aged 91. Their parents reside in .Smith .Street, Dunedin. The little girl was standing on a rock beside the pool, which is about 15ft. deep, and on -putting one foot in she slipped and fell. Her brother put out a hand to save her but was pulled in. Both sank, rose again, and disappeared. Not -till some time after, the bodies were recovered 'by two men, who dived for them. Artificial respiration by two medical men was of no avail.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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128BROTHER AND SISTER DROWNED Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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