DROWNING FATALITIES
BOAT CAPSIZES. Invercargill, Last Night. The police have been advised that two Maoris Manna Davis (18) and Patani Davis (11), brothers, were drowned this afternoon, a boat in which they were crossing the Mataura River at Fortrose, capsizing through a rough cross wind catching it. broadside on. The bodies were subsequently recovered. Te Kuiti, Last Night. Two native children, Turna Tnkotahi, a. boy aged 4 years, and Uma Rena Tukotahi, aged 8, were accidentally drowned in the Mafigarnmn stream about six miles from To Kuiti late on Saturday afternoon. The inquest this morning disclosed the fact that both were playing happily near their grandfather’s house but. were missed. The mother instituted a search and the two bodies were found submerged in ten feet, of water a quarter of a mile from Ihe house. It is surmised the children were spearing eels when the boy fell in the water, and his sister .jumped to his assistance, and, owing to the steep banks of the stream could not- get out.. The Coroner, Mr R. M. Somerville, returned a verdict, of accidental drowning.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2661, 20 November 1923, Page 3
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182DROWNING FATALITIES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2661, 20 November 1923, Page 3
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