TWO BOYS DROWNED

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1940, Page 3

TWO BOYS DROWNED

Canoe Capsizes IN GISBORNE RIVER. GISBORNE, January IG. Two schoolboys, who had ventured on the /Taruheru River yesterday, without their parents’ knowledge, were drowned when the canoe wh/cn they had commandeered caps.zed in midstream. The victims were Bruce William Foss, 11, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Foss, and Maurice Gabolinscy, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Gabolinscy. The boys left home about 10 a.m., with the understanding that they were going to visit Foss’s grandmother. When Mr. Foss returned from work last evening he went to fetch the boys, only to find that they had not reached their avowed destination. He then searched • the river bank, and found his son’s bicycle. The ponce were notified, and an immedate search was begun. Gabolinscy’s body was found at 8.30 p.m., but that oi Foss was not recovered until this morning.

buosequent inquiries showed that the boys had gone to the river during the morning, and were seen by another small boy to get into a canoe moored on the river bank. After a time the canoe drifted into midstream where it capsized. COOK'S DEATH. HASTINGS, January 15. Miss May Lydia Rochefort, agea 53, cook at the Napier Public Hospital, was found seriously injured on the asphalt at the foot of a twostorey building at the institution at 5.30 a.m. to-day. Her death occurred within a few minutes. It is assumed that Miss Rochefort fell from a window of the staff room on the second floor, but there is nothing to indicate the cause of tne accident. An inquest was opened this afternoon, and was adjourned sine die.