TRAGIC CAPSIZE OF PUNT
Three Children Dead
THREE OTHERS BELIEVED
DROWNED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 18. Three Maori children were drowned and three others are missing and. believed drowned as the result of a punt in which they were being ferried across the Otamatea River, an estunry of Kaipara harbour, capsizing at about o o clock tonight. The victims are DROWNED. Queenie Paikea, aged about 13. Violet Timo, aged 12. Tui Timo, aged 6, a sister ol me above. MISSING BELIEVED DROWNED. Robert Timo, aged 8 or 9 Edie Connolly, aged 10. Marina Paikea, aged 8. The scene of the tragic occurrence was a promontory fully two miles across t estuary from Batley I ost Office. 11. children were being brought back by launch from Tanoa Native School, which is some two miles upstream from B at, ey. The children attending the school Inc over widely separated districts on both sides of the harbour inlet, and are ferried in the launch to and from school da it y is not known why the punt capsized. The launch rescued all. the ® the r children, who clung to the bottom of the punt.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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192TRAGIC CAPSIZE OF PUNT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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