MAORI DROWNED
TRAGEDY AT ROTOITI.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA. December 31
Hapeta Whata. a Maori labourer, aged 22. lost his life late yesterday afternoon as the result apparently of being seized by cramp while swimming in the 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 thinking 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. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 2
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