TWO DROWNED
WANGANUI RIVER TAKES TOLL MAN AND BOY THE VICTIMS NON-SWIMMER LOSES LIFE IN ATTEMPT AT RESCUE Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, January 5. A double drowning tragedy occurred in the Wanganui River this afternoon, the victims being:— CLAUDE MULVANEY, married, ot Auckland, a visitor to Wanganui; and HOWARD BERNARD LOFT, aged
nine years. , Mr. Mulvauev and his wife, together with Mrs. Loft and family, were picnicking on the river bank about two miles above Aramoho bridge early in the afternoon. Four of the Loft children went into the river to bathe and almost immediately Howard Loft got into difficulties.
Mr. Mulvaney, although he could not swim, gallantlv went fully clothe<| into the river in an endeavour to save the lad. Both were swept away with the current and drowned. At the same rime two of the other children got into difficulties, but Mrs. Mulvaney managed to get them out. The bodies were recovered later by the police.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8
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