DOUBLE FATALITY
CURLS FALL OVER 20OFT CLIFF BODIES TERRIBLY MUTILATED (Per Press Association, Copyright).. HASTINGS, August 23. A fall down a 200 ft. cliff, in the Hawke’s Bay back country, 15 miles from Puketitiri, resulted in the deaths of two school girls from Hastings, when they were spending a holiday with their uncle there. They were Gertrude Hart, aged 11, . and Esme Hunter, aged 104. Accompanied by a younger sister of tlie girl Hunter, they went out this' morning some distance from the homestead of the Pakaututu station, of which the uncle, Edward English, is manager. They intended to make a way down a cliff track to a creek below, when a portion, of the face of the cliff, composed of papa-and shingle, slipped away, taking ; the two elder girls to the bottom,* 200 feet below. They were terribly mutilated, and great difficulty was experienced in recovering the bodies. . ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 5
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149DOUBLE FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 5
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