YOUTH DROWNED AT AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 10

YOUTH DROWNED AT AUCKLAND

♦ CANOE OVERTURNED ON REEF COMPANION SWIMS ASHORE (FB£SS ASSOCIATION TILKGHAM.) AUCKLAND, March 6. In full view of hundreds of picnickers on Milford beach this afternoon, a young man was drowned when a small canoe overturned about 100 yards from the beach. The victim was Trevor Windsor, aged 17, a Takapuna butcher's assistant. With another young man, Windsor had hired a canoe just a few minutes before the mishap. The canoe capsized on a small reef which was laid bare owing to the exceptionally low tide. His companion swam ashore, but Windsor disappeared in the strong ebb tide. , , Six members of the Milford Girls Surf Club went into the water fully clad and made a search for the body without success. CARRIED OUT OF DEPTH RETURNED SOLDIER DROWNED AT WAIKOUAITI IVB.tC.Sa ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) ■ DUNEDIN, March 6. While bathing at the north end of the Waikouaiti beach this morning, Donald Alexander Smith. a dairy farmer, aged 44, was carried beyond his depth by exceptionally heavy seas, and drowned. His plight was noticed by others on the beach, and unsuccessful efforts were made by a swimmer and a man on horseback to reach him. The body was recovered later by two swimmers, who noticed it about 400 yards out. Smith, who was a returned soldier, was a married man with two children, and was a resident of Waikouaiti.