DEATHS BY DROWNING.

Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 5

DEATHS BY DROWNING.

YACHTING AND BOATING ACCIDENTS.

Several drowning fatalities, and accidents in which such fatalities were narrowly averted, occurred in different parts of the Dominion on Sunday. Through the capsize of a canoe, lan Broxon, aged 23, was drowned at Panmure Beach, near Otahuhu (Auckland). With two companions, he left Brady’s Beach in a yacht for Panmure. Here, on Saturday evening, the three yachtsmen went ashore. After midnight Broxon left for the yacht in a small collapsible canvas canoe. Presently one of tho men on the yacht heard a splash, and it was seen that tho canoe had capsized. He immediately dived overboard and succeeded in grasping Broxon, but after a ten minutes’ struggle he lost his hold, and in the darkness failed to locate him again. The body was not recovered. Broxon, who was a prominent athlete, resided with his widowed mother at Mangere. Another drowning accident occurred in Auckland Harbour on Sunday. The victim was Robert Brown, of Parnell. A fishing party of four left Hobson Bay in a \oat at 10 o’clock for she Rangitoto Channel at midday. When Rangitoto Channel. At midday when two miles past North Head a strong bust of wind capsized the boat, to which the four people held on for half an hour, but presently it was noticed that Brown had disappeared. Two men cruising in the vicinity later rescued the other three and rowed them to a launch a quarter of a mile away. The launch visited the scene of the mishap and a fruitless search was made for Brown, who was aged 34 years and leaves a wife and three children.