BOY DROWNED.
FATALITY NEAR THAMES. WENT TO POOL ALONE. CORONER COMMENDS FATHER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES,' this day. Alexander McDonald, aged 13, son of A. McDonald, of Tapu, late of Poukawa, Hawke's Bay, was drowned about five o'clock on Saturday while bathing in a deep pool: in the Tapu stream. The lad left home, telling his mother he was going to swim. She thought he. was going across the road-from the house to a shallow portion of the stream, but apparently; lie went alone to a pool up the road. - .
The boy's father arrived home about 5.50 p.m. and on making a search saw hie son's body at the bottom of a pool. He dived twice and succeeded in obtaining it. Artificial respiration was without avail.
The coroner, Mr. W. Bongard, at an inquest yesterday, returned a verdict of accidental drowning, and commended the active measures taken by the father in his endeavour to restore life.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 283, 30 November 1931, Page 9
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