YOUTH DROWNED
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Yachting Tragedy at Auckland
(Bjr Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. When the 14ft. yachf Will-o'-the-Wisp in which he and three other youths were sailing, capsized in thc harbour on Saturday, Roy Stanlev, aged 17, was drowned. His companion swam ashore. The yacht was laying down the harbour In a fresh southeasterly wind when it capsized. Two of the youths swam ashore, *the owner of the yacht, Clarence Goodall, remainlng with Stanley. As the boat drifted towards Btho middle of the harbour Stanley left ano tried to. swim to a beacon. When halfway he, seemed to become entangled in seaweed and disappeared. Goodall was picked up by a dinghy and the yacht was towod by launch to tho Aucldand side of the harbour Stanley 's body haa not yet been recovered.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 6
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