SEVERAL DROWNING CASES.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 8

SEVERAL DROWNING CASES.

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WHAKATANE, This Day. . A sad drowning accident occurred at midday yesterday,, when Haydn Ansell, aged ten, and Carl Oremev, aged eight, lost their lives. They were out in' a boat on the river near the freezing works, and it is surmised that the boat got adrift, and in their alarm they 'jumped overboard to get ashore. Neither could swim, and the inevitable happened. No one saw the accident. The bodies were recovered- by the police at 4 o'clock this; morning. -, . TAURANGA, This Day. A three-year-old boy, Lewis Neves, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neves, o! Cox street, Herne Bay, Auckland, who are on a visit here, was drowned in the Waitoa, a small river about eight miles v from Tauranga, yesterday afternoon. The party was out picnicking, and the lad was playing about with his five-year-old brother, when he was missed.' On a search being made, his hat was found floating in the river. An uncle, Arthur Padlie, dived and recovered the body, but an hour's effort failed to resuscitate the boy. DUNEDIN, This Day. Leslie Gibson Marwick,< a deck hand on the river steamer Glutha, was drowned while bathing in the .Molyneaux River at Balclutha on Saturday. The deceased and John Thompson, another deck hand, >ere bathing together. The latter seeing the deecased in- trouble, towed him nearly to the bank, when Marwick grasped his wrists, ,-md Thompson had to free himself. Procuring a life belt from ft man on the bank,' Thompson returned, but Warwick had. sunk. The body has not yet been recovered. ■ Police Constable Martin Gordon Smart, a single man, aged .26, who joined the Force in December, 1923, and had been continuously stationed in Dunedin, was found in the harbour this morning. For the past week he had been on night duty, his beat including the wharves. He was seen at 1.25 a.m. by a nightwatchman, when.'he appeared to be normal, and at 1.45, Sergeant Dunlop, who expected to meet him on the wharf, found no trace of him. The body was found in the water some distance from Victoria Wharf. It is surmised that the deceased tripped and fell into the hrabour. HAMILTON, This Day. A drowning fatality' occurred at Horseshoe Lake, near Frankton, on Sunday afternoon, when a youth, Robert Leighton, aged 17 years, a son of Mr.' K. Leighton, of Franktori, lost his life. Leighton was swimming with other lads at the lake. He became separated from his companions;,! :;who; -were1 'occupied-. in ■ launching an' old boat. Leighton disappeared without warning. His clothes were found on the lakeside Were he undressed, and jb -was jccricluded that he was drowned. His, body was recovered this morning. While taking- his : customary daily bathe in the water race of-' the Horahora power-house on Sunday morning, a -labourer named Albert Tom'lin, ab.out'4o years of age, was drowned. He was alone at the time, iso no one saw him disappear. The body was later recovered. Deceased was a married man. He lived with his wife and two children near the power-house' extension construction works, where he- was employed. He was a recent arrival from England. AUCKLAND, This Day. Alfred Patrick Doolan, aged 36, a married man, was drowned while crossing the Tamaki River oh Saturday evening^ He was rowing a Owen Lewis, across to a camp, when he took a- spell. An oar fell overboard, and Doolan dived after it. His companion saw him wading ashore, but when the boat drifted to landj he found that Doolan had disappeared. His body was subsequently found in.shallow water.