DROWNED IN CREEK
SCENE OF PREVIOUS
, FATALITY
i (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 13.
A second drowning, at the same spot within a little more than two months occurred in Whau Creek, Avondale, -this'afternoon, when a boy of 15. the same age as the previous victim, lost his life. The victim was George Nancarrow," New Lynn., He learned to swim' during the Christmas holidays. He had swum across the creek, and was half-way back when he cried for help and disappeared. The body was recovered.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 11
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