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PUNT CAPSIZES IN RIVER SIX CHILDREN DROWNED (By Telegraph-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 19. Three Maori children were drotvned and three others are missing and believed to be drowned as a result of a punt in which they were being fenied across the Otamatea River, an estuary of Kaipara Harbour, capsizing at about five o’clock last night. The victims are. Drowned: Queenie Paikea, aged about 13; Violet Timo, aged 12; Tui Timo, aged 6, a sister of the above. Missing, believed drowned: Robeit Timo, aged 8 or 9; Edie Connolly, aged 10; Marina Paikea, aged 8. The children were being brought back by a launch from the Tanoa Native School, which is some two miles upstream from Batley. The children attending the school live over widely separated districts on both sides of the harbour inlet and are ferried in a launch to and from the school daily. It is not known why the punt capsized. A launch rescued all the other children who clung to the bottom of the punt.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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