Small Boy Drowned
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AUCKLAND, March 7. ■ An' eight-year-old. boy was drowned . when he sfepped "into An "underwater ' hole on the- beach at jW aikareao estuary, Tauranga. He wai William Arthur Beaumont, son b'|, MSr. -'an'd Mr|. JJ. W. Beiiumoht, of Suij»hui jJPoint. The "boy was, paddlipg on vfhe- •b.eacli -where. his two'uncles were s'Aimiuing. (He stepped ■into ^ a- sahd hole which had been scooped in the beach dragging Ray Beaumont, aged 17, down?. with.-him. Ray Beaumont brolte free and tlien started to dive for the boy but his body was not recovered until an hour later.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1948, Page 3
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