DISTRESSING DROWNING FATALITY.
YOUNG LADY VICTIM. A' distressing drowning fatality occurred on Friday afternoon last, in the Ruamahanga river at Taumata Island. Miss Louisa Nickalls, of Wairoa,: Hawke's :Ba>% had been staying with' relatives near the island. far some months. On. the afternoon i of Friday she, with several others, J went to the river for a bathe. Miss .-NickaHrj, in company with Miss Patterson, walked, by accident, out; of shallow water, over'• a ledge .into . si. pool twenty feet deep. -Miss Patterson, who could swim a little, scrambled out wren some difficulty, but Miss Nickalls, who was unable to swim, sank to the bottom before assistance could be procured. The lifeless body wag recovered about an hour later. ,The"'deceased, who was nineteen', years of age, . was highly esteemed by a large circle" of friends. Her remains were interred in the ClaTeville cemetery on Sunday afternoon. ' ...
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 5
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146DISTRESSING DROWNING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 5
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