BOY DROWNED IN FLOODED STREAM
illy 'Telegrapli.-Tress Association.) . AUCKLAND. October 27. Albert George Courtenay, a schoolboy, aged 16, eldest son of Mrs. E. Courtenay, Grey Lynn, was drowned while swimming across the Hunua stream just above the falls on Saturday afternoon. The boy. who was spending the weekend at a Y.M.C.A. boys’ camp at Hunua, had swim across the creek with another lad. and on the return disappeared beneath the surface. It is stated that lie was a fairlv strong swimmer, but the river was in flood and there was a strong current. The boy’s companion said that Courtenay did not call out or give any indication that he was in trouble.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 6
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112BOY DROWNED IN FLOODED STREAM Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 28, 28 October 1942, Page 6
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