DROWNING FATALITY.
By Telegraph—Special to Age. „
GREYTOWN N., April 5. On Thursday afternoon while a number of Maori children were bathing in the Ruamahanga River, near Papawai, a native girl 13 years of age, named Hinekera Topikura, got the cramp and was drowned. At the inquest, to-day, at Papawai, before Mr D. M. O'Connor, actingCoroner, the following verdict was returned:—"That the deceased met her death by being accidentally drowned on April 4th, 1907, in the Ruamahanga River." The jury added a rider to the following effect:—"We very highly commend the action of those natives, Ereti Pahura and Rangi Norman, who so heroically attempted to save the deceased's life. We are also of the opinion that those natives whose duty it is to look after such young children should instruct them of the danger of bathing in such a locality."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 6
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139DROWNING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 6
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