DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.
TWO GIRLS LOSE THEIR LIVES. fBT TELEGBAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NELSON, This Day. With regard to the double drowning fatality at the Quarantine Station at Taiiuna, it appears the accident took place late yesterday afternoon. Tha two little girls were named Lilian Jessie Wilson and Mary Georgina Wilson. They were inmates of St. Andrew's Orphanage, and were aged nine and ten years respectively. They were pushing a flat-bottomed boat into the water, when they got out of their depth, and, being unable to swim, were drowned. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The police are searching. The father is at Denniston.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7
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104DOUBLE DROWNING CASE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 90, 18 April 1911, Page 7
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