BOY DROWNED.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1923, Page 4

BOY DROWNED.

._ UREA .MDFTII. .March 2:1. j (iv ■ rhalaueing from th" stern m : j heat, in wlii'-h !.:• was jdayiug. Ali-’ke.v , Knapp, aged 12. was itrowm’d al,oui 1.-," vards la. low ( ob(1 1. *n Pridge vester day nftoi noon nt Job i. ■■ I<. Young Knapp vE ■ was play tug un. 1!: V| ;’ I;[ J■ i •,- ill, • -11 t O'Neill ( ob doII ; Allied Cniniey. Alexander ‘Duke’ O'Rrieii. Ce.l.doni.in iii'i d hi, I O’l:I-:tll:<.us I but he :uhl jump o' l lie bout. v. hielt was inoered le ur lb hank, on to the shore. Going to tin stern of ihe boat, ho aHeinptc'! I" ia!.. si,ring- but (be boat swung o'lt t‘ i!;... end of its moorings, nod firm jerk id. i air- ing Knapp to lose Id- b-dauce tie fill into the river, and being u;i a')!, to swim, he soon sank. Tin. was about ten feet frot. tt : ,s bank when the hoy fell ill. am .. hen his hod.’ was found 25 ndnnl" Int i , h" was idio'it t. n yards holnv 1,0, i1k. on the l-eel,-. lit a depth o 1 about 15 feet. The deceased was a lad of consider j aI Jo pi-nmi"', both as an nth •!■. la am !;u a vocalist. <Fi Saturday, at ik i |I lie spoils. Knapp won the 75yd- | ohampioiisldp of the West (oust. i-a h.ijnlhcvs. 11. had won several olhe schoolboy events at various athien | caniivaK on the ( oast lately. He kn shown a Is.-; ,-mw idei able promise »- ( . s - f«oiii <r n monitor ol iho M 1 :!l ! rick's Chureii Gbeir. and !'-••; "ii! '= tlv missed !>olu the choir (a th \it. Ri’oihe: ■•' School. <>u Saturua v', ning. indeed, he look a pr..niiiwn and sina o’ s'; 11 1 pari ill the hoys’ iiein : .i the naval loiicert ia the Dper I louse. He is: the son of Air Georg Knapp, of ThreadneC'dle St., who bai lulled to 1 e attending a cricket meal Cohdeu when the ac« ulent oceui ~e . ,j T!i ( , lierraveil parents will hav ' ihe' deepest .sympathy of their man ’ friends in their sad hi s.