SMALL BOY DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 11

SMALL BOY DROWNED.

CHILDREN PUVYING "WITH BOAT. ACCIDENT IN WHAU CREEK. A verdict of accidental death was returned this morning at the inquest concerning the death of Stanley .Carlton Turner, the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Turner, of Linwood Avenue, New Lynn, who was drowned in the Whau Creek, Avondale, about noon yesterday. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., acted as coroner. The evidence showed that the boy eet out about eleven o'clock yesterday morning to play with two other children about three years old. About noon neighbours, Mr. and Mre. Hitchcock, were attracted by cries from the creek and hastening down found the two smaller children adrift in a boat, but no sign of Stanley Turner. Mrs. Turner arrived and wading into the creek brought the boat ashore. A search failed to discover the third boy, but the body was later found as the tidal water receded. Artificial respiration was applied by Mrs. Hitchcock until the arrival of Dr. T. Derrick, but without avail. It is thought that when the boat drifted away with the two younger boys that the other attempted to recover it and was drowned in the attempt.