LAKE FATALITY
HUNTLY BOY DROWNED SWAMPING OF CANOE TWO COMPANIONS RESCUED (Special to Times.) HUNTLY, Wednesday When a canvas canoe was swamped on the lake at one o’clock today a schoolboy was drowned and another rescued in an exhausted condition. The boy drowned was:— William Hallam, aged 13, son of Mr William Hallam, miner, of Huntly. The boy was in the canoe with two other schoolboys, B. Kay and Edward Foster, a visitor rrom Hamilton, when the wind caused a swell which swamped the canoe Foster was rescued in an exhausted condition by Mr James Paterson, who swam into the lake, and Mr George Smith administered first aid. Mr Paterson then ran to the other side of the lake, where he and a companion brought Kay to the shore. There was no sign of Hallam. Constables Craigie and Sullivan searched the lake all the afternoon, but the body was not recovered. The search will be continued tomorrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 6
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157LAKE FATALITY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 6
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