DROWNING TRAGEDY AT FOXTON.

Shannon News, 5 January 1923, Page 3

DROWNING TRAGEDY AT FOXTON.

BOY’S UNTIMELY END

Through falling from the wharf into Foxton Harbour, a boy, named Geo. Small, 15 years of age, was drowned at about 6.15 p.m. on Monday evening. It appears that the boy was walking on the edge of the wharf and wheeling a bicycle when he stumbled and fell into the water.

A boy named John Delaney saw Small fall in and gave the alarm. An attempt at rescue was made by Clarence ’Herbert-Walls," exchange clerk at the Foxton Post Office, who was on the wharf at the iim.e. He at once dived into the water, hut could not secure the drowning boy and when he rose to the surface the deceased had disappeared.

The body was recovered by the police two hours after the tragedy. At the inquest held before Mr M. Perreau and a jury of four, a verdict of accidental death by drowning was returned.

The deceased was Ihe son ot Mr George Small, of Union Street, Foxton. He was a bright, intelligent lad, and was employed at a grocery store in the town. His mother, who was on. a holiday in Auckland, returned home yesterday.