STUCK TO HIS CART.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 June 1926, Page 7

STUCK TO HIS CART.

SMALL BOY'S LOYALITY. SUH-OO LiM ATE’S 'POIGNANT STORY (by TKLFGUAPH—-PBMBS ASSOCIATION. > WMjMiNIGTON, May 31. The- wad disowning a-ccklienifc in JliViaiiis Bav iw investigated todlay, at w inquest on. Kiavin Nioel, Clarr, aged 1 , who lotsifc lws 'K-f© through a. canoe va,p>Tlio .accident was. described by deceased’® schoolmate, Henry IMwiard Compton, wiho .said that at about 10 o’clock on Fiidluy morning Oan’r went to Evans Bay Power Hou.se to get Nome coke for'ids .mother, it being 'her binlihidiay. Th ev loaded the small ca.it and ksiaek, then, deckled) to go lor a. row in ,a lannall Hat bottomed canoe which was offered to them by .another boy. F’eianins t!li.a.fc their oa.be miigjlit be taken Should they leave sit> on the Weaeh, they put the .sack in the bow and the cart in the. .stern of the boat. The canoe had no oars, being guided iby a. couple of .sticks. It Was their intention to* go only a. little way, but once in the bay they found they could not return to the'shore on account of (the ■wind, t hey slowly drifted out torwaidd Miramar Wharf, and the canoe began to leak, gradually filled up and foundered. _ “T i u Imped out and pulled 1C win out,” .said' Oomipton, “land helped lulu a.s well .as I could to. get him away from the boat, but lie did not want- to leave the cart, which was floating near-by.’’ Compton .said lie tried, to make ‘for the .shore, and in a few minutes lost .sight of Cla.rr and the ca.itt He remembered very little after that, and could not .say lio.w he was taken out of the water. Andrew Albeit Edward Uol unis, motor driver. said he launched a. boat end. went to the .aislsistau.ee of tlie boys. The Coroner remarked that it was quite dear that, death was. due to misadventure. Gomuton; was a. plucky little boy. He did all he could to help Ids friend, but was not _much of* a swimmer and could not assist him. The finding was that Carr was .accidentally drowned through the swamping of a boat. Sergeant. Pender, who conducted the inquiry, said he. thought some arrangement. might be made for a, boat, for rescue pur,noses. Tire Coroner .said be would look into the matter land, refer it to the local authority.