YOUTH DROWNED
FATALITY AT AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, January 9.
"Watch me swim back," called Walter Henry Barlow, aged 18, to his cousins, Joan O'Connor, aged 11, and Peter O'Connor, aged nine, after he had swum out into the stream while bathing about 50 yards on the south side of the Tamaki bridge yesterday. Tragically, the youth then disappeared.
Walter Barlow, a son of Mr. Harry Barlow, Grey Lynn, arrived from England less than four weeks ago to join his father, who is a well-known member of the Auckland Municipal Band. The boy had been living with his grandmother in England, and this was his first visit to New Zealand. He was to have celebrated his eighteenth birthday on Monday and was stopping with his father's sister.
The other children gave the alarm, but rescuers were unable to find any trace of the body. The body was recovered in the evening.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 7, 10 January 1938, Page 5
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