THREE PEOPLE DROWNED
THROWN FROM SPEED-BOAT When the outboard motor-boat in which they were speeding on Cockatoo Lake, . about 10 miles from Narracoorte, South Australia, spun round and turned over on October 15, a brother and sister and a youth were drowned. Tho victims wero:—Lindsay iMmes, aged 23; Mavis Holmes, aged 13, a schoolgirl; and Ross Whillonbury, aged 18. When thev were Hung out, Mavis and Lindsay Holmes clung together, and were drowned, while an eye-witness ot the tra ,T edv was attempting to obtain assist•mce i!o«s Whittenbury made a desperate struEch'. to reach the shore, but .became ; exhausted when 100 yards from tho bank and sank before the eyes of a woman who stood horror-stricken and lieljJless* A J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21325, 28 October 1932, Page 9
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