SAD FATALITY.
TWO GIRLS DROWNED AT
TOKO. Two young women named Jessie Burgess, aged 21 and Ada Cheer, aged [6, were drowned in the Mangaohu river near the Toko Road creamery at about 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday. Information supplied to the police states that the girls were sitting on the bank of the river which at the spot is ten or twelve feet deep, and both slipped in. Constables Bleasel and Crawford have gone out to assist in the recovery of the bodies. News of the distressing accident caused quite a gloom, and much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved friends. The spot where the sad affair took place is a very beautiful one, a little way. from the Matemateonga tunnel. It Is understood that some ladies witnessed the disaster and state the girls were standiiigdpJLe shallow water hqidißg'each other’s hands when th|yslipped off a ledge into deep ■‘waW* There we're quite a number of people ia the vicinity, the occasioning a large picnic. to recover the bodies by d&mg have, so far, been bottom of the hole in which ‘dheJjtk wefb drowned, consisting, ose wbiofy divqd' reprbSentai tive, of mud.-—Strat-ford PoJHHBT
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 703, 30 December 1909, Page 3
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192SAD FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 703, 30 December 1909, Page 3
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