INQUEST.
An inquest touching the death of the boy, Roy Calloway Robinson, who A r as drowned at the Manawatu Heads on the ist instant, was held before Mr A. Fraser, District Coroner, this morning, when the following evidence was adduced ;
Hope Mackie stated that on Friday, November ist, she and four others, including the deceased, went down to the Beach to spend the day, leaving Foxton at about nine o’clock. After they had their lunch they all went out in the breakers. Calloway went out the farthest and witness saw him apparently lying down in the water. They called out for him to come back, but didn’t think he heard them. They then sent word to some men that were fishing further alofig the beach. The men came up to the spot, but when they arrived the boy had disappeared. Charles John Quartermau, uncle of the deceased, stated that at about half-past nine yesterday morning Mr Robinson informed him that the body had been found and witness went down to Otaki and identified it and brought it back to Foxton. The Coroner returned a verdict that the deceased, Roy Calloway Robinson, came of his death by drowning while bathing in the surf on Friday, November ist.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 19 November 1912, Page 3
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207INQUEST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 19 November 1912, Page 3
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