DROWNING FATALITY.
Auckland, January 9
A sad fatality occurred at Henderson to-day, resulting iu the death of Sarah Wright, wife of W. H. White (farmer) and of Miss Reine Parkinson, a girl of 14. A party was out bathing iu Henderson Creek when Miss Harrie got into difficulties. Another of the party succeeded in pulling her out. While this was happening Miss Parkinson slipped off a shelving ledge over slippery rocks into a deep hole. Apparently Mrs Wright tried to rescue her, but also fell into the hole.
An alarm was given. Mrs Wright was pulled out, but the unfortunate woman was then dead. Miss Parkinson has not been recovered.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19130111.2.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1049, 11 January 1913, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
110DROWNING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1049, 11 January 1913, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in