DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.
TWO GIRLS LOSE THEIR LIVES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NELSON, Last Night. With regard to the double drowning fatality at the Quarantine Station at Tahuna, it appears the accident took place late yesterday afternoon. The two little girls were named Lilian Jessie Wilson and Mary GeorginaWilson. They were inmates of St. Andrew's Orphanage, and were aged nine and ten years respectively. They were pushing a flat-bottomed boat into the water, when they got out of their depth, and, being unable to swim, were drowned. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The police are searching. The father is at Denniston. . ' '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10217, 19 April 1911, Page 5
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102DOUBLE DROWNING CASE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10217, 19 April 1911, Page 5
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