DROWNING ACCIDENTS
Fatal Canoe Capsize BOY UNABLE TO SWIM By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Dec. 12. Through the capsize of a Rob Roy canoe in which, with another boy named Richardson, he was crossing the lake at Fordell, George Burton Phillips, aged 13, was drowned on Saturday afternoon. Phillips was unable to swim. Richardson readied the shore in an exhausted condition. The body has been recovered. INFANT’S BODY FOUND Strayed from Playmates By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Dec. 12. Au infant, Derek Leslie Mitchell, aged three, son of Mr. W. L. Mitchell, Papanui, was found drowned in the surf at Waikuku beach early this morning, after an all-night search. Tlie child strayed from lhe sandhills while playing with some other children last evening. DROWNED IN STREAM Infant Apparently Slipped . By Telegraph.—Press Association. Marton, Dec. 12. On Saturday afternoon the eighteen-months-old son of Mr. H. Hall, of Kaikarangi, Hunterville, was found drowned under a bridge crossing the Porewa Stream. The child hid beep playing with his mother, who had left him to go for the cows. The stream was in high flood, and the child apparently slipped in above the bridge, the body being found wedged under the decking.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 11
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196DROWNING ACCIDENTS Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 11
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