COLLAPSED IN BATHS.
BOY OF TWELVE DEAD.
DOCTOR'S WORK IN VAIN.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WANG ANUI, Wednesday. Graliam Barstow, aged 12 years, collapsed while bathing in a swimming pool this afternoon, and, although the caretaker and a doctor worked continuously for three hours, and his heart was beating, they could not restore respiration.
The boy, who was a son of Mr. N. C. Barstow, local manager of the South British Insurance Company, went with a party of boys from his school. He could not swim, but was at the deep end, using an inflated motor car tyre tube for support, when he apparently fainted or lost his hold on the tube, and sank.
No one saw him actually go down, but he was soon missed, and was brought to the surface unconscious by another boy. It is stated that he could not have been submerged more than three minutes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 20
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