HEATHCOTE RIVER FATALITY.
SECOND BODY RECOVERED
Christchurch, October IS
At the inquest to-day on George Eden, aged 9, one of the victims of the drowning tragedy at Woolston, Mary Ann Dowling, aged six, said she saw three boys, one of whom was her brother Jackie, take a boat lying on the bank of the river just below the tanks and paddle out into the stream. They rowed across the other side of the river and were coming hack when the boat suddenly stopped and went under. A formal verdict of death by drowning was retuned. rThe punt in which the hoys made their fatal trip was recovered to-day upside down and embedded in 'the mud of the river, bed several chains downstream from , the scene of the accident. Dragging operations were resumed this morning but it was not until shortly after six o’clock this evening that the body of John Downing, the eldest of the three hoys, was recovered. There is still no trace of the body of Alexander Eden, the youngest of the victims'.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3706, 20 October 1927, Page 2
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175HEATHCOTE RIVER FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3706, 20 October 1927, Page 2
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