ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1916, Page 8

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

r TWO BOYS DROWNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Auckland, Last Night. Two boys named James Horace Irwin, aged 13. and Raymond Sainty, aged 13, were drowned in a pond on the Campbell estate yesterday. 'Accompanied by a third boy, named Cochrane, they were playing in the estate. Sainty and Cochrane, both of whom could swim, went for a bathe in the pond, and Irwin, who could not swim, went on to the prnd on a wooden raft. Suddenly the raft collapsed, and Irwin sank. Both Cochrane and Sainty made a b:ave attempt at rescue, but Sainty was seized by Irwin and both went to the bottom. Cochrane's attempts to save both boys .were unavailing, and after diving for some time he went for help. When the bodies were recovered the deceased were found clasped in each other's arms. At the inquest to-day the Coroner found that Irwin had been accidentally drowned, and that Sainty was drowned v.hilc heroically endeavoring to saye Irw:v. He also commended the action of Cochrane in attempting a resdte. DEATH FROM A FALL, Auckland, Last Night. A boy named Norman Sutherland died in hospital to-day as the result of injuries sustained through a fall from a tree. Deceased's parents reside at Oneluinga.