THE WEATHER.
A DROWNING ACCIDENT. By Telegraph -Press Association. PALMERSTON N., August 4. A considerable amount of water still remains in the outlying parts of the district between here and Foxton, where train traffic is interrupted, and from Tokomaru to Kopuiaroa. where the water is over the fences in parts of the flax swamps and the Makeraa Station is unapproachable. Heavy isolated showers 1 fell to-day, but the rivers are still falling. A tragedy arising out of late rains occurred shortly after the Terrace End School dispersed to-day. A number of children went to the gravel pit at the back of the school, which the rains had tilled with water, and two boys got in. James Dryland succeeded in getting out again, but Robert Edward Larsen, aged 8, was drowned.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 5
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130THE WEATHER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9560, 5 August 1909, Page 5
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