boy drowned
No Witness of Fatality (Dominion Special Service.) Palmerston North, January 29. When paddling in the camp site swimming pool in the Manawatu River at the back of the Esplanade this afternoon, Patrick David Llewellyn Dilks, aged 9$ years, of 23 Campbell Street, was drowned.: Accompanied by his foiirteen-year-old brother, Maurice Dilks, Patrick Dilks went paddling in the Manawatu River, leaving home about 11 a.m. Neither of the boys could swim. The drowned boy was last seen alive at two o'clock. Later in the afternoon a boy who was going in swimming in the pool kicked an object which turned out to lie (lie boy’s body. Artificial respiration was applied without success by Mr. C. Fenton, who was on the scene just after the body was removed from the water. Apparently there was no witness of the drowning.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 10
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139boy drowned Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 107, 30 January 1935, Page 10
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