DROWNED AT WAIKANAE
BOY UNABLE TO SWIM. COMMENT BY CORONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Comment on the foolishness of allowing children to bathe when they were unable to swim was made by the coroner at an inquest today into the death of Alick Egergarn, aged 14, who was drowned in the Waikanae River on January 7. The boy was a member of a party of children from the Deckstin Hebrew Institute, an orphanage. Evidence was given by the principal of the orphanage that of 22 inmates none were able to swim. Witness said he told the children not to go to the river without his consent, or in his presence, but his orders had been disobeyed. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 6
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125DROWNED AT WAIKANAE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 6
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