THE PAPAROA FLOODS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3449, 31 March 1920, Page 5

THE PAPAROA FLOODS.

INQUEST ‘YICTIMS4

AUCKIQANDA this day.

In the inquest vou~t.he victiins of the Pnparoa fatality, Matt.llew's stated when he swam with his youngest child i 0 :: bnnk. the wa‘rel' i\.'-.a.§ up to the top of the wire fence. When he returned his wife handed him the baby out of a window. He got. it to safety. "R-ea‘llrn‘i:w;' again he. found flle.watel_L= half-way up the window, and his wife in a fainting condition. He got his wife and four children on the roof. Ten minutes later the house was washed away. Hewseized one child. and believes anothi’-r caught hold of him» He sunk. -but ‘recovered himself, ‘and gof to HlO bzmk with the _\'oun,9:esi" ichild. Another was fionling beyond his I'em3h. The verdict was fhat the victims met their death.~2 by flood. czmsod hv exenssaive rainfall. &