FELL FROM DINGHY

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30438, 12 May 1964, Page 18

FELL FROM DINGHY

10-Year-Old Boy Drowned (N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, May 11. A 10-year-old boy was drowned when he fell out of a dinghy into about five feet of water in the Invercargill Estuary, near the boatsheds, about 2 p.m. today. He was Trevor Frederick Collis, son of Mr and Mrs F. G. Collis, of No. 8 R.D., Wrights Bush.

Trevor and a friend were playing in the boat when it was tied up at the water’s edge. They set the boat free and it began to drift out into the estuary.

There were no oars in the dinghy. It is thought Trevor could have panicked and jumped overboard when the boat had drifted about 30 yards from land.

Two other boys, who had been standing on the shore, waded out to help him but he sank out of sight before they could reach him.

The boys then ran out on to the road and stopped a passing. motorist, Mrs M. Stark, who informed the police of the accident. Mr R. D. Scott, an Invercargill boat-builder took out another dinghy and rescued the other boy before the police arrived.

Police found the body in about three feet of water at 4.15 p.m. The tide was going out at the time.

Frenchmen.—France's population went up 1 per cent in 1963 to 48,090,000.—Paris, May 11.