ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 11, 7 December 1916, Page 5

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

THREE MAORI GIRLS DROWNED. Per Press Association. Gisborne, December /. A drowning fatality occurred at To Arai yesterday afternoon, whoa throe Maori girls lost, their lives. The children were pupils of the To Aral school, named flora Johnston (aged 12 years), Hossana Tnrangi (9 years), and Pairua years). They went tj the river to bathe', and were accompanied hy three other girls. No delinite story is told hy the three surviving girls as to how the tragedy occurred, but it is surmised tnat the children got into difficulties in deep water. Upon the alarm being given, several adults went to their assistance, hub the unfortunate girls had disappeared. The girls were all used to swimming. A search was immediatel;, instituted, hub so far only one body has been recovered.

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