WASHED OFF A BOCK
EOY DROWNED IN THE SEA
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
GISBOENE, 22nd September,
Through a dinghy capsizing off Kaiti beach on Sunday, Eojr Pearson, the seventeen-year-old son of Mrs. S. J. Pearson, was drowned.
In the boat were Eoy Pearson, Victor Gilbert Pearson, his brother, and John Campbell Morris, his brother-in-law.
When the dinghy capsized the three occupants were thrown into the water about two hundred yards from the shore. They all reached a submerged rock, and Boy and his brother stood on it while Morris swam for the shore.
Hearing, cries for help, Morris went back and found the two brothers had been swept off tho rock. Roy, who could not swim, was not seen again.
At an inquest to-day, the Coroner (Mr. Harper, S.M.), returned a verdict of accidental death. He said he would like to commend tho two survivors, Victor Gilbert Pearson, and John Campbell Morris, for tho steps they took to rescue the deceased.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 73, 23 September 1930, Page 10
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