FATALITY IN BATHS
(Press. Assn.—
boy drowned hn tragic circumstances at te awamutu NOT NOTICED BY BATHERS
-By -Telegraph — Copyright).
TE AWAMUTU, Sunday. The second drowning fatality within 24 hours, occurred at the public swimming baths this afternoon, Brian Harvey, aged 9 years, whose parents reside at Avenue Road, New Plymouth, being the victim, in tragic circuhistances. Together with his sister, aged 12 years, he left his aunt's home at 3 o'clock, for the baths, where there was an attendance of over 60 people. The two children separated, Brian being neither noticed or missed until nearly 4 o'clock, -when a girl swimmer, Jean Fleming reported that her foot had touched something at the bottom of the bath. An investigation revealed the body, one-third of the distance from the shallow end, in about five feet of water. Artifieial respiration was tried for over an hour. Nobody noticed deceased enter the water, nor heard cries of distress. The doctors surmise that deceased was in the water at least a quarter of an hour before . his body was discovered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 130, 25 January 1932, Page 5
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