FELL FROM BOAT
DROWNED IN TAMAKI RIVER
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, 15th February. Within sight of two other boys with Ijim, Chris Stephens, aged 15, of Panmure, was drowned near the Panmuro wharf in the Tamaki River shortly before 2 o'clock to-day. Attempts at rescue failed. Together with Cliff Green and Jack Beer, of Ellcrslic, Stephens was playing in a dinghy near the shore. As they had no oars, they were pushing the dinghy along with sticks in about a foot of water. Deer left the boat to have a swim, and Stephens pushed it out toward the centre of the stream, but, finding he was going too far, ho tried to push back to the shore. The boy was unable to reach the bottom with the stick, and overbalanced, falling into fairly deep water. Stephens's companion in the boat, Green, threw him a rope, but Stephens could not catch it, and Boer, who was In tlio water near, wont ashore to get a stick which he held out to Stephens, j Unfortunately Stephens pulled the slick out of. Beer's hand, and he sank immediately. Several parties dragged the river for the remainder of the afternoon, but the body was not found.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 39, 16 February 1931, Page 8
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