Four Girls Drowned.
"*■■■ m i MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS NEAB AUCKLAND. A shocking bathing fatality has occurred on the West Coast, opposite Aratapu. A large number of Wairoa residents were camped on the coast holiday-making, and of several who went in to bathe, three young girlsEvelyn Hogg, Bessie Scott and Annie Woollams — were drowned. Mrs Hope and a girl named Florrie Jones had a narrow escape. Miss E. Hogg was one of the younger daughters of W. Hogg, grocer, Newmarket. She was on a visit to her aunt, living at Aratapu, and was accompanied by her mother. The same morning a little daughter of Hector Alcock, of Aratapu, was drowned from the Kauri Company's boom.
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Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1895, Page 3
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113Four Girls Drowned. Manawatu Herald, 29 January 1895, Page 3
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