ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
MISSING CHILDREN DROWNED. By Telegraph—Press Association. f Dunedin, Jan. 19. The police have further advice of the drowning of two children, Mary and John Small, aged 1.3 and 10 respectively, in the Taieri River near Longford «m Tuesday. Thomas Garrett, while working in his garden, heard a cry for help 9.nd saw a horse and gig in the current. A few yards behind a girl appeared, apparently being washed into the willows. Garrett shouted: “Catch a willow branch.” but the horse and gig got into a whirlpool and went, down, drawing the girl under. Nobody seems to have seen the boy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1922, Page 8
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104ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1922, Page 8
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