RIVER TRAGEDY
YOUNG WOMAN DROWNED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 17. A drowning accident occurred at a point on the Waikato River near Puni this afternoon. The victim was Miss Dorothy Winifred Hiscock, aged 19, of Puni. Miss Hiscock was one of a family party comprising two brothers and a sister who went to the river lor a swim. They all entered the water but after a while the other three got out and rested on the bank. The older sister was still swimming when the others heard a cry for help from her. Her younger brother. Archibald Hiscock. plunged into the water, which was very choppy and ran strongly, and struck out for his sister. Her older brother. Alexander Hiscock. ran a few yards up the bank and launched a boat. Meanwhile the younger brother had reached his sister and made an effort to bring her to the boat which was then only a short distance away. However, his strength gave out before they could be pulled aboard and both sank beneath the surface. The brother rose to the surface alone and was hauled into the boat. The water at the point where the girl disappeared is very deep and nothing further was seen of her.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 8
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207RIVER TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 December 1939, Page 8
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