Schoolboy Drowned While Learning to Swim
({Special to “Times.”) TAUMARUNUI, Feb. 20. Grahame Wilfred Ryan, a schoolboy, aged 11, was drowned iu a whirlpool in the Mangaboe Stream near Kaitieke School yesterday afternoon. Deceased, with other pupils, was learning to swim in the presence of the headmaster, when he got out of his depth jind was swept out of sight. The bathing pool was rendered dangerous through recent floods. The headmaster made all effort.* to rescue the boy and a number of expert divers made repeated attempt* for two hours before the body was recovered by Cecil Edwards, a powerful swimmer.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 44, 21 February 1945, Page 4
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