BATHING TRAGEDY
SAFETY ZONE IGNORED
By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, Feb. 6
A fatality occurred at St. Kilda Beach this afternoon, when a nine-year-old boy, named William Ivcrr,
was drowned in the surf. There are safety zones marked on the beach by flags, but many of the bathers had ignored them, and were bathing in'a rather dangerous rip. Kerr evidently got into difficulties and was ear-
rieu out to sea. A life line was quickly manned, but the first two men to go out could not find the boy. The body was then seen floating about 300 yards out, and two young men went out, one bringing in the body. Life was found 7 to be extinct and the body was taken to the morgue.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1930, Page 1
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