LITTLE BOY DROWNED.
FATALITY AT ST. MARY'S BAY.
CAUGHT BY RISING TIDE.
A little boy, Gordon Atholl Cowley, two and a-half years of age, was drowned yesterday near St. Mary's Bay, , Ponsonby. He was the son of Mr. G. A. Cowley, 51, St. Mary's Road.
About two p.m. yesterday a resident of Ring Terrace, seeing what appeared to be a body floating in the bay, notified Sergeant of the Ponsonby police. A shipwright who was working on the beach, acting on the sergeant's instructions, rowed into the bay and recovered the body. Mrs. Cowley said that the child had been playing in the kitchen while she was working in the yard. It is surmised that he wandered down to the beach and was caught by the incoming tide.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17268, 18 September 1919, Page 6
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