TRAGIC END TO SCHOOLBOY'S HOLIDAY VISIT
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AUCKLAND, Last Night. A schoolboy, Eonald James Maddren, aged 11, a son of Mr. G. J. Maddren, of Ponsonby, was drowned in a stream at Maungaturoto to-day. The boy was spending a holiday with his uncle, Mr. H. C. Cullen, of Maungaturoto. This morning he lett the house with hii cousin, aged seven. The younger boy returned to the house, and when his companion did not arrive a search was made. The body was discovered in the stream at a point where the water was about four feet deep and 20 feet wide. The boy apparently had attempted to cross the stream along a treetrunk. The branches of the tree were freshly broken near where the body was found.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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