SCHOOLBOY DROWNED
TRAGIC END TO TRUANCY. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Pukekohe, Nov, 10. Robert Oswald Blake, aged 15, son of J. A. Blake, Waiuku, was drowned at Ocean Beach, near Waiuku, yesterday. Three secondary school boys who were supposed to be at school went to the beach instead. While bathing Blake, who was unable to swim, got into difficulties. The efforts of his companions to rescue him alive failed, but eventually his body was recovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 15
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74SCHOOLBOY DROWNED Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 15
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