MAN DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 8

MAN DROWNED.

HARBOUR TRAGEDY DRAGGING FOR BODY. VICTIM IDENTIFIED. ONE OF WAIMARINO'S CREW. Tragedy swooped with startling (suddenness on an informal swimming party in tlie water at the launch wharf between Prince's wharf and the Ferry tee just before 2 o'clock this afternoon, and a man stated to be John MacCormick, aged 37, a native of Scotland, was believed to be drowned. MacCormick was a deck hand on the Waimarino. The spectators suddenly observed the man, 30 to 40 yards. out from the launch landings, had swimming and was floating with hie head under water. After some momenta spectators realised that there was something wrong with the floating man, and two men set off to the Tescue, one from a launch landing and the other from one of the lighters beside the ship Waimarino, on the eastern side of Prince's wharf. The faster of the two would-be rescuers was within a couple of yards of the floating man when the latter sank from sight, and, despite efforts by the two swimmers, the body was not "again seen or located. Immediately a rowing boat and a launch were Bet to work with grappling irons dragging to recover the body, but at 3 p.m. it had not been located.

Prior to I>eixrg seen floating face downward, the man had shown no signs of being in difficulties, and it is thought that he muet have had a seizure of some kind.