DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 275, 19 November 1926, Page 6

DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

FATALITY ON OCEAN BEACH. WAIXTKU LAD'S LIFE LOST. COMPANIONS GET ASHORE. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") PUKEKOHE, this day. Robert Oswald Blake, aged 15, only son of Mr. J. H. Blake, factory manager at Waiuku, was drowned on Ocean Beach, West Coast, near Waiuku, yesterday afternoon. Three High School boys, Reginald Robert Coy, James Harkness, and deceased were supposed to be at school yesterday, but they cycled to the beach instead. They had two swims, and, after sunning themselves, went back to the water to wash the sand off their bodies, it being low tide. All three got into one of a number of deep holes. Cox and Harkness scrambled ashore, but Blake, who could not swim, was drowned. The other two went after Blake, and eventually recovered his body, and a doctor was summoned, but could only pronounce life extinct. TAURANGA SETTLER'S DEATH. "' DROWNED IX A CREEK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TAURAXg!, this day. A settler named David Scott, aged 35, has been drowned at Kaimai. It appears that he went down to a creek to attend to a hydraulic ram, and, not returning, his brother went down, and later found his body in the creek. An inquest will be held.