DAY'S BAY FATALITY
VALOUR OF TWO BOYS.
Yesterday morning Mr. W. G. Kiddell, S.M., held an inquest touching the death of Walter Stewart, of Newtown, who was drowned at Day's Bay on Sunday. The verdict was one of accidental drowning.
The ovidence was to the effect that Stewart, with his wife and sister, was bathing on the northern side of the Day's Bay wharf, when all suddenly got out of_ their depth and were at once in peril. James Bronte and Hector Cowper Clouston, two "Wellington College boys, each 15 years of age, were walking along the wharf, and, seeing the struggling trio, went to the rescue. They set about saving the women, but the task was one of great difficulty owing to the women clutching the boys. Knowledge of life-saving methods enabled the boys to push the women off and take fresh hold, but still it was only with great risk and after a severe struggle that the rescue was effected. While all this was happening on one sido of the wharf scores of people were bathing on the other side quite unaware of the occurrence, When' Stewart was_ recovered from the sea artificial respiration was tried, but he could not bo brought round.
Senior-Sergt. Emerson, who represented tho police, and the Coroner both, paid tributes to the bravery of Clouston and Bronte, whose knowledge of swimming and life-saving had saved two lives.
. The Coroner remarked that the Stewarts had no doubt thought the place safe, whereas it had been made deep bv dredging. The attention of the authorities should he directed to the fact that there were no life-saving appliances on the wharf. Ho thought that notices should he erected warning bathers against unsafe portions of the hay. ' ,
Mr. T. Shields, local representative of the Royal Humane Societv, states that so far no one has called on him to fill in the papers that have to be signed by disinterested eye-witnesses before rescuers can be recommended to the society for recognition. Any witnesses of Sunday's rescue by tho two college boys or the recovers of the body by a third party can fill in, the papers on application to Mr. Shields.'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 13 December 1916, Page 4
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363DAY'S BAY FATALITY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2953, 13 December 1916, Page 4
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