DOUBLE DROWNING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 400, 8 December 1932, Page 5

DOUBLE DROWNING

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SAD FATALITY UPON A DARGAVILLE EEACH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

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[ Dargaville, Wednesday. "A sad double drowning fatality took jdace in Ihe Mahuta Gorge, a seaside ■esort, six milos from Dargaville, ast night. Al)'. T. G. Parkes, a resident of Mangawhare, accompanied by his wife Wllliamina Stafford Parkes, aged 42 years and daughter, Irene Graee, aged about 1 0 years, went out by car to the beacli, to gather toheroas. While her husband was gathering toheroas, Alrs. Parkes and her daughter went bathing. When the husband returned from his quest he could not s.ee anything of his wife or daughter, and after an unsuecessful search motored to the nearest telephone, some five miles distant, and asked for a search party to come out. A number of residents and police immediately went out. It was then i'airly late, but moonlight. No one saw the aceident, but it is surmised that the mother saw her daughter in difficulties, rushed to her assistance, and fell on her face and ,vas suffocated, as there was no water in the body when it was found. The search for the body of the daughter was continued all night, but up to the present no trace has been found. An in(yuest on the mother's body will be held this afternoon.