NORTHLAND DROWNING
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Young Boy in 25 Feet of Water '
• (By Telegraph
WHANGAREI, .Tbis Day. Tbe- first dfowning.f atality. in . Northyesterday, when Arthur Ricbard Schutt, lan.d' .this . swimming * season /occurred aged 13, • was - drowned -im tbe Hetea 1 river. • V v Tbe boy was batbing/witb/tbe two Tufneil cbildren -in portion of the river whef e / dredging operafibns were recentiy carried out,'. and' tHe bank sbelves sliarply'to a deptb of 25 fe'et. * He was soon nbticed to : be -. in ; difficulties and the 'Tufneir- cbildren • rau 'bonie ' foT assi stanc'e. Mrs ' Tufneil » dived" in . fully elotlied-in an attempt to resciie.'the boy. How'ever sbe - was ' unsuccessf ul and tbe police were. called. It was impossible to . find tbe body by : diving, and grappling irons bad to be used. Deceased was a son of William Jobn Harold^ Scliuttj. of Port. "Whangarei. An inquest was "opened .and adjOurned after . evidence of identification had been given. 5 ' :
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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152NORTHLAND DROWNING Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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