SCHOOLBOY DROWNED
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Attempted to Cross Stream
(By Telegraph--
AUCKLAND, Last Night. A schoolboy, Ronald James Maddren, aged 11, son of Mr. G. J. Maddren, of Ponsonby, was drowned in a stream at Maungaturoto to-day. The boy was spgnding his holiday with his uncle, Mr. H. C. Cullen, of Maungaturoto. This morning he left the house with a cousin aged seven. The younger boy returned to the house. When his companion did not arrive, a'search was made and the body was discovered in a stream at the point where the water is about four feet deep and 20 feet wide. The boy apparently attempted to cross the stream along a tree-trank. 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 3
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