MAORI DROWNED
A FISHING TRAGEDY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 18. A Maori labourer was drowned when the punt from which he was fishing sank beneath him on Lake Owhareti, at Pakaraka, near Kawakawa. The victim was Miki John Apita, aged 20, of Aramohoe. A party of nine Maoris, including deceased, left Aramahoe native settlement to fish for eels on the lake and, getting into an old punt, deceased and a 15-year-old lad, Roy Takimoana, began to pull out to the centre of the lake. Not far from the shore the punt sank, and the two occupants were thrown into the water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 3
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102MAORI DROWNED Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 3
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