TWO CHILDREN DROWNED
BROTHER AND (SISTER. FALL INTO POOL AT GARDENS. (By Telegraph—Press Association ) DUNEDIN, March 23. Two children, brother and sister, were drowned in a pool in Woodhaugh Gardens shortly after midday today. They were:— Marion Joyce McKeagg, aged 12. Norman Earl McKeagg, aged 9|. Their parents reside in Smith Street, Dunedin. The girl was standing on a rock beside the pool, which is about 15ft deep, and on putting one foot in she slipped and fell. Her brother put out a hand to save her but was pulled in. Both sank, rose again, and disappeared.
Not till some time after, the bodies were recovered by two men, who dived for them. Artificial respiration by two medical men was of no avail.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 7
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