ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20988, 30 December 1931, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FOUND DROWNED. Three youths in a boat saw the body, of a .man floating in the water off Petone Beach (Wellington) ; at 2.5 p.m. yesterday. Securing it with a boathook, they dragged it ashore, where artificial respiration was applied without success. Dr R. Bakewell arrived at 2.25 p.m. and pronounced life extinct. The man, who was in a bathing suit, had been seen in and out of the water from 10.30 a.m. until late in the afternoon. Ha has not been definitely identified. . A man named George Taylor,_ aged seventy, - a bachelor, was found in the surf at Patiti Point, about a mile from Timaru yesterday afternoon. When the body was recovered artificial respiration was applied, but without success. BODY FOUND ON BEACH. A body found off the Petone Beach yesterday has been identified as that of Mick Borich, a Dalmatian, twentythree years of age. It is understood that the deceased had no*relatives in. the dominion. Recently he came to Petone from Christchurch, and was assisting at a restaurant in Jackson street. At the inquest the coroner returned a verdict of accidental drowning. Evidence was given that Borich could not swim very well.—Wellington Press Association telegram.