ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. By Telegraph. —Press Association. Oamaru, Jan. 1. A distressing drowning fatality occurred on Oamaru beach at noon to-day. Walter Brown, aged 15, son of Walter Brown, a railway surfaceman, of Christchurch, who was fishing with his cousin, Andrew Medcaff, fell into the surf off the storm water discharge pipe. Tlie boy Medcaff pluckily dived to the rescue, but was unsuccessful, and got into difficulties himself. A younger sister of Medcaff waded into up to her shoulders and brought her brother on to the shore. The body of Brown was recovered by a railway fireman named Cameron, but artificial respiration failed to restore breathing. The deceased, with his parent*, was on a holiday visit to his relatives here.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1918, Page 5
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121ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1918, Page 5
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