YOUNG BOY DROWNED AT BAYSWATER
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, February 20. Norman Taylor, aged eight years, of Bayswater, was drowned on Saturday afternoon while bathing at Bayswater. He was playing with six other children, who also got into difficulties. An onlooker. Patricia Pridham. aged 13, who is a good swimmer, pluckily rescued three of the children; but was unable to reach the boy before he went under the surface. After the girl had raised an alarm, the boy’s father located his, son’s body.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25734, 21 February 1949, Page 6
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