ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
YOPjNG GIRL DROWNED.
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AUCKLAND, January 4. A girl aged fourteen years, ..Christine Brauidigan, daughter : of Mr Richard Braudrgan, forest ranger at Taupo, was drowned this afternoon when bathing in a ..lagoon off Taupo Road, about three miles, from. Rotorua.
The deceased, who was accompanied by a girl friend,..went .bathing in the lagoon, while her , companion watched from the bapk v -■'■Theybather soon got into and, although her .companion tried to save:, her, with a length of flax, she sank in fourteen feet of water. ■" '■ ' •. ■>'
A diving party pf Maoris from Whakarewarewa searched 'for the body under police supervision, but without success.
MAN FOUND DEAD. ; GISBORNE, January ,4. The body of a middle-aged man, who ■had been dead for.several weeks, was found to-day at Kaiti Hill among tho trees. ' t -v ’ ■ " There were .papers on the body ytiich gave the name- of Thomas Scott, a - man formerly employed as fp-ftretapi iTf the T .Union Company' at . ; i. ;■ v .^. - The deceased had been searching for work in tho • coast townships. A bottle smelling of pbleon was found nearby,
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