A BOY DROWNED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The police have been notfied that a schoolboy named James Frederick Victor Holmes, who was capsized in a canoe a -week ago, was evidently washed to sea. The 'boy was on holiday in Blenheim, and wae warned not to go in the canoe, but ventured out. Friends heard him scream, and saw him floundering in the surf beside the canoe. The crew of the steamer Wat-ran heaTd cries, and saw the boy's hands disappearing-. Search and dragging were fruitless.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 236, 2 October 1920, Page 6
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88A BOY DROWNED. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 236, 2 October 1920, Page 6
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