BOY DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 108, 10 May 1927, Page 11

BOY DROWNED.

CRUSHED BT PERRY. GIRL DIVES FOR BODY. (From Oar Own Co-respondent.) SYDNEY, May 5. While endeavouring to board the ferry steamer Kameruka as it was leaving the Mortlake wharf, bound for Sydney, yesterday, a boy missed his footing and fell between the steamer and the wharf. The boy was identified last night as Erie Webb, aged 15, who resided with his parents at Victoria Street, Waverley. The water police dragged for the body, which was recovered' late in the afternoon. The boy was engaged selling chocalates on the ferry steamers, and at the time of the accident was carrying a tray containing sweets. As he fell he was apparently crtfshed between the boat and the wharf, and it was found when his body was recovered that he had received extensive injuries. After he had fallen into the water the boy reappeared for a moment and then sank. Mies Ivy Hornery, aged 16, of Hilly Street, Mortlake, dived into the water from the wharf without hesitation, but her meritorious effort to assist the boy was fruitless, as the body had sunk in deep water.