BEYOND THE BREAKERS.
ST. CLAIR FATALITY.
TEACHER'S SON DROWNED.
ißy Telegraph
Association.) DUNEDIN, this day,
At about 6.30 o'clock last evening bathers on the St. Clair Beach were alarmed to see a man who had been swimming beyond the outside line of breakers throw up his arms and disappear. Several members of the St. Clair Life Saving Club immediately swam to the spot, but although they searched until a late hour no sign of the swimmer was found.
■ His body was washed up on the beach this morning, and was then identified as that of Meredith Norman Nesbit, aped 17, employed in the operating room of the telegraph office. His body was washed up on the second beach thi6 morning.
Nesbit, whose father is a teacher at Moray Place School, was to have bathed with a party, but as they did not appear young Nesbit went in alone, entering the water off the rocks at the baths, the most dangerous spot. It is supposed that when Nesbit sank he got 'caught in kelp, which is plentiful there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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