SOLICITOR DROWNED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 8

SOLICITOR DROWNED

«, ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE SON. LAKE TAUPO TRAGEDY ijlv Telegraph—Pr<---- Association.' ; AUCKLAND. January 5. A Napier solicitor a member of th«*| Napier Borough Council, was drowned ! in Lake Taupo today. The victim was! Mr. A. li. D. Mayne. a married mam j with two children. He was a son of j : the late Dean Mayne. •■! the Angiiqm j . Cathedral. Napier. With his small son. aj'.ed six. Mr ; I Mayne was returning fn>rn a fishing; I trip in his outboard motor launch u.y i Ji*rusa!<-rn Huy on th<* w< t of thv j lake While the hunch was still about 1 2.'i yards from the shore the hoy ••lurid ' ( jup in the bow. ready to jump o.it imt ■overbalanced ant! tri! m.> '.tie water i. Hi: father inuHcdititHy dive! m »,,j !e..etJe him. but omitted ’ • ’UM' <T tile: outboard m. ;.>■.■ Th.- :-.-,yu- t : , ■-.■•■ ■. os'' c/■ '. ti!ld fepeutedh 'trui!; Mr Moyne. .■.;:•■ ■■. a ■ j supporting the p..y. ai'u. tm it: ■,•. w- ’ able to aw.id d He < lit mil. had t reiea e the I- tied .mJ ;,ir 12. fee! of v.iltej Mrs Rita France.-: Ch I'p- -r wlvj | win on the beach sav, the accident I ■ .■.1i,!...! him elf by ■ addling Half ■ l way bael: the shore -with him. shop : was met by a Pa;.--iw.r-i ■■’. i-w >* it;■ r !!=’’■ "' ': ■ :■■■<■.'• 1 i: ■ . f '.!.<• boy. ; i ’.■ <re both ab< arc! mm ■ ■ Uumch ' • i 1 .. , > <; | I ”• < ■ ■.*■,■'. ■ > ei ■,. I;,.!; I*