TWO DROWNED IN RIVER

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28161, 27 December 1956, Page 6

TWO DROWNED IN RIVER

Victims Father And Son (New Zealand. Press Association) DUNEDIN, December 26. A father and son were drowned at Taieri Beach this afternoon, the son in an attempt to save his; father. They were: Albert Edward Smith, aged 35. of 9 Burgess street. Dunedin, a: storeman; and Keith Norman Smith, aged 12. Mr Smith and his son were play- ! ing with a ball on the bank of the ! Taieri river -hen the ball went into the water. Mr Smith, who , could not swim, waded out to retrieve it, and went out of his depth. He called for help, but bystanders thought he was only playing. Mr John Donaldson went to assist him, and Mr Smith's son followed him. Mr Donaldson had to give up the attempt at rescue when the current began to carry I him downstream. ! The boy and his father floated (downstream. The boy’s body was [picked up by a launch near the opposite bank. A two-hour search ' was made for Mr Smith, but no trace was found. i Mr Smith was employed in the ! main store at Taieri aerodrome. :He arrived in New Zealand two [years ago with his family from England.

INJURED WOMAN DIES

YALDHURST ROAD COLLISION Mrs Eileen Jacobs, of 21 Retit ruth avenue, Christchurch, who ■ was seriously injured in a collision between a truck and a car at the corner of Carmen and Yaldhurst roads on Tuesdav - evening, died in the Christchurch i ■ Public Hospital at 7.30 a.m. yesl, terday. ■ Mrs Jacobs’s husband, Mr i ;George Robinson Jacobs, died in : hospital on Tuesday evening from .! injuries suffered in the acci- ■; dent. :' 'pie condition of their two ; i children, Catherine Jacobs, aged t three, and Marilyn Jacobs, aged i2O months, who were also admit- | ted to hospital, is satisfactory The two children suffered only I slight injuries.