DROWNING FATALITY.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NAPIER, Friday.
~ A sad drowning fatality occurred.here.this afternoon, by .wiich a lad .named: Matthew. O'Brien,, .about six and a-half years of age, and a son of Constable' O'Brien, lost his life. The little fellow had gone to the Tutaekuri River, at the back of the recreation ground, to sail a, model yacht, and slipped into the water. A little gjrl, who,had accompanied went to the lad's, home, and told the deceased's boy's* elder brother, who at once went to the scene of the accident, but though he dived immediately, and searched the spot, it was not for some little time afterwards, that he recovered the body'"' about" 200 yards away from where the boy had fallen in.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 7
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