Mother And Son Drowned In North

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30961, 18 January 1966, Page 1

Mother And Son Drowned In North

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 17. A woman and her four-year-old son were drowned after they got into difficulties while trying to swim a channel at Tapeka point, 10 miles north of Russell, this morning.

They were: Mrs Joan Kinloch Harland, aged 36, of Emmett street, Tauranga, and Rex Anthony Harland. A search by skindivers for the body of the boy will be resumed at dawn tomorrow. The woman’s husband, Charles William Harland, was skindiving only a few yards away. He knew nothing of the tragedy until he surfaced half an hour later. The family, who were on holiday, left Hadow's bach at Tapeka at 9 a.m. The parents ferried their three children across a channel to some rocks and then Mr Harland began skindiving. It is believed his wife tried to return to the mainland with the boy when she got into difficulties.

Her husband when he surfaced was told what had happened by his other two sons, who had stayed on the rock. A launch anchored nearby raised the alarm by radio and

the two boys were taken off the rock in a dinghy.

Drowned In River

A seven-year-old girl was drowned in the Tukituku river, near Waipukurau, on Sunday. She was: Wendy Anne Cudby, daughter of Mr and Mrs N. T. Cudby, Church street, Waipawa.

With a younger brother she was playing in a shallow part of the river. The children wandered down the river and she got into difficulties in deep water. The boy called his parents, who dragged the child from the water but she was dead.