SAD TRAGEDY
(Press Assn.—
two girls killed fall two hundred feet to a creek below BODIES BADLY MUTILATED
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
Hastings, Wednesday. A fall from a 200 feet cliff in the backblocks of Hawkes Bay, 15 miles from Puketitiri, resulted in the death of two school girls from Hastings who were sepnding a holiday with their uncle there. The two'victims of the fatality were Gertrude Hart, aged 11 years and Esme Hunter, 101 years Accompanied by a younger sister of the girl Hunter they went out early this morning some distance from the homestead at Pakaututu station of which their uncle, Mr. Richard English, is manager. They intended to make their way down a cliff track to a creek below when a portion of' the cliff face, which is composed of papa and shingle, broke away and hurled the two older children to the bottom. The bodies were terribly mutilated and were recovered with difficulty.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 618, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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156SAD TRAGEDY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 618, 24 August 1933, Page 5
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