BOYS DROWNED
CANOE ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. November 19. When a canoe containing four boys overturned at Brighton today two of the boys were drowned. The victims were Colin Venville. aged 16. and Harry Planner, aged 15. The canoe was a quarter of a mile from the shore in a calm sea. but the boys’ weight loaded it down so that it had only four inches of freeboard. When the boys decided to return to the shore the canoe capsized in turning. The only swimmer in the I party, Percival King, aged 17. swam to - the beach and returned immediately with rescuers rowing a boat, but they found only Ronald Planner, aged 17. clinging to the upturned canoe, the others having sunk.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 7
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