BROTHERS DROWN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 15

BROTHERS DROWN

Our Own Correspondent.)

Canoe Won in Raffle

(From

SYDNEY, Deo. 10. A man who won a canoe with tickqt No. 13 in a raffle and his younger brother were drowned when the cSfioe upget in Cook'i river, Canterbuiy, * Sydney suburb. The victims wer® David Dunk, aged 27, and Atbert Dunk, aged 18. David had bought two tickets in the raffle at gixponce ea&h, and had been elated to find one of them was No. 13, which, he doclared, was "hia lucky number." There wa? jubilation when the "lucky nuinber" won, and the canoe, of new design and constructed of rubber and canvas, was delivered at the Dunk home. David and Albert Dunk took it out for the first timo on Sunday afterpoon Mrs. Diihk sat an the bdhk while the brotherp paddled round a bend, waited half an hour, then, disapppinted that they had not returned to take her for a iide in. the canoe, went homeWhen the brothers returned later to where they had launehed the canoe, oue of them stood up and, the canoe capsizing, they were throwu into the water. It was thought that they were skylarking, but their cries attaoted fpur men playing tennis near by. They could only see one man in tho water. One of the tennis players dived in and grasped David Dunk. He was helping Dunk ashpro when the latter, missing his brother, wrenched free and dived under the water. He did not rise to the surface again. Both bodies were recovered. The rivcr where the tragedy occurred is about 30 yards widc. It has a channol 12ft. deep in the middle, but on either side the water shallows rapidly, and the banlcs are thickly lined with rushes. As botli the brothers could swini, and one oi' ihein had been a mcmber oi a life-saving club, it is surmised that they both becMM if tthe rushes.