DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19851, 23 January 1928, Page 10

DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

LOSS OF THREE LIVES. WASHED OUT TO SEA. ATTEMPT AT RESCUE FAILS. NEW BRIGHTON FATALITY. [BY TELEGRAPH.* —OWN COIUIESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday. A drowning accident, in which a young man,.Harry L, Bush, 25 years of ago, of 84, Fitzgerald Street, lost his life at North New Brighton to-day, «at about 4 p.m., 'cast a gloom over the hundreds of holiday-makers assembled for the North Beach gala. Bush, with four friends, went in bathing outside the safety area and soon got into difficulties with the strong backwash. The man shouted for help, and his friends immediately swam to him. He struggled frantically, however, and after a long trial the others were forced to let him go. He was immediately washed out to sea and was not seen again. Bush was a prominent rowing man, being stroke for the Union Club, and was to have stroked his crew at the Kairaki regatta on Saturday next. YOUTH DROWNED IN RIVER. RECOVERY OF THE BODY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. A youth named William Jemison, aged 17J, years, was drowned at Upper Mangorei on Saturday afternoon. Jemison, who was employed as a baker's apprentice in New Plymouth, made a practice of spending the week-end with his parents, who reside at Upper Mongarei, about 11 miles from New Plymouth. Ho was driven out. by his employer, Mr. J. Shepherd, on Saturday, and between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon his mother asked him to take some tea to some roadmen working about a quarter of a mile away. At the same time the boy took his bathing suit. The deceased did not put in an appear, ance at tea time, and the mother's growing alarm was allayed somewhat by a suggestion that ho must havo returned to town with Mr. Shepherd. This, however, was found not to be the case, and a search was commenced early in the evening. The tea jug was found soon after on the roadside, and at about 8.45 p.m. the father and mother discovered the lad's clothing beside a tree on the river bank. There was a deep hole in the river at this spot, some 6ft. deep, about 30ft. long, and 15ffc. wide, where the body of the "unfortunate boy could bo seen at the bottom. It was recovered by a searcher named Roy Brewster, but it was then too late for anything to be done. FATE OF A LITTLE BOY. SWEPT INTO A PIPE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TIMARU,- Saturday. The three-year-old son of Mr. W. Reynolds, of Fairlie, was drowned this morning. He fell into a creek and was swept into a pipe, through which the water passed under the road.