SURFING FATALITY.
(0.C.) WHAKATANE, this day. While bathing in the surf at Ohope Beach at 10 o'clock yesterday morning an architectural cadet employed by the State Housing Department at Wellington, was drowned while using a surf board. He was:— Mr. Albert William Osborn Lunn, aged 23, of Wellington. Mr. Lunn was not a strong swimmer, there was little sea running, and it is thought that he suddenly got into difficulties with the surf board. As soon as his disappearance was noticed the alarm was given and members of the Ohope Beach Surf Club recovered tJie body about quarter of an hour later. Colonel G. W. Gower, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, applied Artificial respiration, 'but was unable to revive him.
At an inquest held last night before the district coroner, Mr. H. Brabant, a verdict of accidental drowning was erturned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 4
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