A BEACH TRAGEDY
FOUR BOYS IN DIFFICULTIES. ONE DIES AFTER RESCUE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. While bathing at the north beach last evening four boys of the boys’ home in Stanmore Road got into difficulties and after excellent work by juniors members of the North Beach Surf Club three were rescued. The fourth boy, Gordon McCarthy, died after being brought to the club rooms. When the alarm was given lan Davison, aged 16, and Berne Brown, aged 16, members of the North Beach Surf Club, rushed out and saw three boys in difficulties and.after a hard struggle brought them to the shore. They then learned that there was a fourth boy missing and Davison and Brown returned immediately to the rescue. When they reached McCarthy he was conscious and spoke but they could not hear what was said. They had difficulty in handling him. In the meantime the girls’ surf team got the reel and line out. Davison and Brown were then bringing McCarthy in. A Territorial went out and helped to carry the patient to the shore.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 4
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180A BEACH TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1942, Page 4
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