MAORI DROWNED
FATALITY NEAR ROTORUA. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, This Day. Hapeta Whata, a Maori labourer, aged 22, lost his life late yesterday afternoon as the result of being apparently seized with cramp when swimming at Otaramarae, Lake Rotoiti. A Maori girl who was rowing a boat nearby stated that Whata appeared to be skylarking in the water and attempted to race the boat. She turned to row back to the shore and heard him call out to her to come back but unnking he was still skylarking she took no notice. When she reached the shore another Native told her that Whata was really in difficulties and she returned but the man sank before she could reach him. The police later recovered the body in twenty feet of water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1938, Page 7
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130MAORI DROWNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1938, Page 7
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