TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 75, 25 September 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS

r>&ZSS ASSOCIATION.] TRIPLE DROWNING FATALITY EVIDENCE AT THE ENQUIRY. AUCKLAND. 24th September. An enquiry was held at Paeroa to-day into the boating fatality on Saturday, which resulted in threo children being drowned. Evidence was given by, Fortesqne Moresby, a boy thirteen years old, who was in* the boat which overturned and sent the threo children to their untimely death. He stated that, along with Kenneth Shaw and Jack Shaw and Mary Movie, he was pulling on the river on Saturday afternoon. No sail was used. Kenneth* Shaw leaned over to one side of the boat, and caused the small craft to ship a little water. The girl, Mary Moyle, got a little excited, and then the quick movements of the children caused more water Ao be shipped and the boat to overturn. / Witness added that he was the only one in the boat' who could swim. He tried to save both Mary Moyle and Jack Shaw, but was unable to do so. Mr. Edward Shaw and Mr. Lionel Shaw, who were quickly at the scene of the accident, dived into the river to attempt to save the children, but were unsuccessful. The two boys who were drowned were the sons of Mr. Edward Shaw, and the drowned girl was an adopted child of Shaw. The funeral of the three children took Elace this afternoon, and was one of the irgest ever seen in the district.