A SAD FATALITY
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
FOUR BOYS DROWNED
PLAYING TRUANT FROM SCHOOL.
(Received Last Night, 10 o'colck.)
SYD.Yl'ii:, March 10
A drowning tragedy occurred near Orange, when four boys, Cecil Hartas, Roney Hirst, and Joseph Hayes (between 7 and 12 years of age), who were playing truant from school, were crayfishing in a dami, and: one fell in. The others tried to save ■liini, and all were drowned. Albert Auberson, another schoolboy, who was present, went home, and at dinner, .some time afterwards he informed his parents. Asked why he did not tell sooner, he said that he forgot.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 5
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104A SAD FATALITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 5
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