YOUNG MAN'S DEATH.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20214, 17 April 1931, Page 5

YOUNG MAN'S DEATH.

I I EVIDENCE OF FATAL DIVE. ■ An inquest into the death of Geotgu Houghton, a young single man, residing at 250 Worcester street, whip ~bro)fs. his neck through diving into shallow I water at Corsair Bay on Easter.Mpn-. ,clay ( . and died later tn the Christ* church , Hospital, \vas held yesterday _ before Mr E, D. Mosley, S.M., -sittilfjg as Coroner. - ' Dr. Brian-. Tyrwhitt Wy» Irwin, ;of„ Christchurch, stated , that Houghtonwas admitted ,to the Christchurch Hospital on April 6th, ( lie vtq# conscious, hut was paralysed in leftarm. He had no head, injuria^ 1 * a,tyi had apparently struck somethiujg when he divea. He <lied an Apuil. ICth, from cardial respira l ory failure following injury to the spinalcordi," associated with a fraqturo 4 of the cervical spine. v ; o\ FranKVSwift Dromgoole and Kohert tie or go, Frank Easton, who saw toe acoiden^'. stated .that Hobghtaq; dived < into about. two .feet/ of k>V Ufic, the' low£r spi ing-board at Corsair Bay.,He dived' straight Eustcm 'atai-ed thaUthereVere nt» rocki. \ ' f ■' '•!* • -if,A . xi :.j i. 'VW-jfiHef

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