BOY AND GIRL DROWNED
TRAGEDY MARS SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC RAFT UPSET ON RIVER Reed. 11 a.m. LAUNCESTON, Today. Florence Powell, aged 15, and Jack Keatmg, aged 13, were drowned, and many other children narrowly escaped, when a raft overturned on the river at the Perth picnic grounds. Baptist Sunday School children were taking rides on the raft, but too many crowded at one end and cadsed it to upset. Some were able to reach the shore and others were rescued by their parents. A boy and a girl, however, were pinned beneath and their bodies were not recovered for half an* hour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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102BOY AND GIRL DROWNED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 812, 5 November 1929, Page 9
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