SURF FATALITY.
YOUNG BOY’S FATE. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Feb- 20. A fifteen-year-old boy, ivan George Berryman, was drowned in the surf at Ocean View, near Brighton, this afternoon. With a companion, a boy named McKenzie, he went swimming and got into difficulties some distance from the shore. The other boy waded ashore for assistance and a young man named McColl went out to the rescue. Berryman struggled with him, and the rescuer was nearly drowned himself in his efforts to hold the lad. In the struggle he lost his grip of the boy, who disappeared. The body has not so far been recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 23 February 1938, Page 10
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104SURF FATALITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 23 February 1938, Page 10
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