DROWNING TRAGEDY.
YOUNG BOY’S DEATH
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Aug. 30. A schoolboy, George McKay, aged 8, of Lyall Bay, was drowned at Evans Bay this morning when a flat-bottomed boat capsized in a rough sea. Two other schoolboys, Arthur Morrison, aged 13, and Ernest Pauline, aged 11, were rescued in an exhausted condition. Morrison was sent to hospital and Pauline taken home. One of the boys was rescued by Richard Robert Hull, a Ponelte Club footballer. After bringing him ashore, Mr Hull stripped and entered the water again to rescue McKay, but was unable to find him. At the same time three men in a dinghy, using boards as paddles, went to McKay’s assistance, but before reaching him ho threw up his hands and disappeared. Tlic body has not been recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 234, 31 August 1935, Page 2
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132DROWNING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 234, 31 August 1935, Page 2
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