TWO DROWNING FATALITIES.
Auckland, AJarch 23,
Two hoys lost their lives by drowning in Auckland during- Lite week-end.
Slipping from a narrow path into lhe dam at. the Chelsea sugar works on Saturday morning, William Moon, aged U, was drowned. The boy was taking lunch to his father, William Aloon, who is employed by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, was accompanied by another small boy, who gave the alarm. A worker from the refinerydived into the dam and recovered (he body from the bottom. A doctor applied resuscitation methods for two and a-half hours without success. The second drowning accident occurred at Aiechanic’s Bay at about three o’clock this afternoon, when Geoffrey Neville, aged 8, residing with his parents in Balfour road, Parnell, lost his life through falling from the wharf. The boy was with two companions who left
him to tish from another position on I lio T'ock retaining wall. About '2O minutos after tlu?iit departure, a member of the A'lcaraiva Yaelit Club, who had been rowing’;' in the bay, found the boy's body in the water. A doetor applied ai’tiih-ial re.spiration for over an hoiVf without sueeess. .
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4431, 25 March 1930, Page 2
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189TWO DROWNING FATALITIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4431, 25 March 1930, Page 2
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