ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
TAUMARUiVUI TRAGEDY VERDICT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taunianinui, August f>. The inquest on the Jeffrey ease has been completed. The jury returned a verdict that David Jeffrey'killed two of the children and committed suicide while temporarily insane, A BOY DROWNED AT BATHS. Dunedin. August 5. A boy named George Haldane Johnston, aged 13, was drowned at the Municipal Swimming Bath? this morning. MANAKAU BUSH DISASTER. Levin, August .". The body of Mrs. Bates, one of the victims of the Manakau fntalitj was recovered yesterday. It h surmised the accident occuired at mid-day, when the family were at dinner. A rata tree, seven feet in dinmetei, plunged fifty feet down a hillside, rarrying away the entire camp and a quantity of spoil. This made recovery of the bodies difficult. Bates came i.'ani letone. A boy aged five years was killed. The scene of the accident is eight milesjjack and ovci a very rough track,
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1916, Page 2
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154ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1916, Page 2
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