DROWNED IN SURF
FATALITY IN WEST COAST BEACH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. When an open boat capsized in the surf on the Tangimoana Beach yesterday afternoon, Maurice Parkes, aged 2'., second son of Mr and Mrs V. G. Parkes, Gonville Avenue, Wanganui, employed by Mr M. Rowlands, farmer, Awahuri, was drowned. Two other young men in the boat succeeded in swimming ashore, hut one had to receive attention. Accompanied by two brothers named Nicholson, of Awahuri. who were slightly older, Maurice Parker ffad gone through the surf in an 18-foot keel beat. A heavy sea was running, and a strcng'wave capsized and swamped the boat. The occupants decided to swim for the shore, but Parkes who was not a strong swimmer, was left behind. After a strenuous struggle, during which they thought they would be drowned, the Nicholson brothers reached the beach, where they were assisted ashore by people who witnessed the accident. Both young men were almost exhausted. Parke’s body has not yet been recovered.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 6
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