DEATH BY DROWNING
WEEK-END TRAGEDIES CANOE CAPSIZES IN SURF. YOUTH LOSES HIS LIFE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, December 25. When a canvas beach canoe capsized in the surf at St. Kilda on Sunday. about 1 p.m., throwing four occupants into the heavy surf, George Charles Burns, of 21 Jackson Street, steel sashmaker, aged 20 years, who was unable to swim, was caught by the tidal rip and drowned. His three companions, two of whom were swimmers, struggled ashore with the aid oi the beach patrol. BOY DISAPPEARS. WHILE BATHING IN RIVER. GISBORNE, December 25. While bathing at Hole-in-Wall on Sunday, Douglas Brown, aged nine, disappeared and is presumed to have been drowned. Police dragged the river throughout the afternoon and life-savers dived unsuccessfully in deep holes. The boy. was not seen in difficulties and apparently drowned unnoticed. MARRIED MAN DROWNED. WELL KNOWN IN PAHIATUA. PALMERSTON N.. December 25. Joseph Annesley Shekelton. aged 35. married with one child, well known in Pahiatua. was drowned off the Waitarere beach on Sunday afternoon. He was bathing at dead low water. There was a heavy sea with a strong undertow. The body was not recovered, in spite of two lifeline attempts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1939, Page 4
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197DEATH BY DROWNING Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1939, Page 4
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