TWO DROWNED.
I FATHER AND SON. AKAROA FATALITY. HOME-MADE BOAT CAPSIZES. TRAGIC END TO HOLIDAY. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) C HRiSTCHLRCH. this clay. A tragie ending to a camping holiday occurred in Akaroa Harbour yewterdav. when a married m«n and his younger still were drowned after tlieir home-made I mat had ■sunk about 200 yards from shore. Other occupants of the l»oat were an elder son. his mother and a Maori lad. who reached the shore isrtfely. The victims were: — Mr. Andrew James Dykea, aged 3tt. coui|«uiy manager, of Cliolmontlcley Road, Opawa. Kenneth Edward Dykes, aped five and a half years, hi* younger son. The tragedy occurred at a Small inlet. The family, wlio were camping at Wailiiii, had been fishing in the bay from their motor boat, which was home-made of iron, and had a motor car engine. They reached the entrance of the bay on their return journey, when trouble developed and the boat overturned. The cider son. .Tames, aged 14 or 15, assisted his mother to the shore, and a Maori boy, \V. Timothy, swain to safety.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 8
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