BROWNING FATALITIES

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 7

BROWNING FATALITIES

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS CHILDREN LOSE THEIR LIVES WHILE BATHING. DEATH OJE X CONSTABLE. Per Press Association. WHAKATANE, January 28. A sad drowning accident occurred at midday yesterday, when Haydn Allsell, aged ten, and Carl Cremer, aged eight, lost their lives. They were out in a boat on the river near - the freezing works, and it is surmised that the boat got adrift, and in their alarm they jumped overboard to get ashore. Neither could swim, and the inevitable happened. No one saw the accident. The bodies were recovered by the police at 4 o’clock this morning. BOY FALLS INTO RIVER. TAURANGA, January 28. A three-year-old boy, Lewis Neves, son of Mr and Airs Neves, of Cox street, Herne Bay, Auckland, who are on a visit here, was drowned in the Waitoa, a small river about eight miles from Tauranga, yesterday afternoon. The part*!' was out picnicking, and the lad was playing about with his five-year-old brother, when he was missed. On a search being made, his hat was found floating in the river. An uncle, Arthur Padlie, dived and recovered the body, but an hour’s effort failed to resuscitate the boy. FATALITIES IN OTAGO. DUNEDIN, January 28. Leslie Gibson Marwick, a deck-hand on the river steamer Clutha, was drowned while bathing in the Alolyneux river at Balclutha on Saturday. The deceased and John Thompson, another deck-hand, were bathing together. The latter, seeing the deceased in trouble, towed him nearly to tho bank, when Marwick grasped his wrists, and Thompson had to free himself. Procuring a lifebelt from a man on the bank, Thompson returned, but Warwick had 6unk. The body has not yet been recovered. Police Constable Martin Gordon Smart, a single man, aged 26, who joined the force in December, 1923, and had been continuously stationed in Dunedin, was found in the harbour this morning. For the past week he had been on night duty, his beat including the wharves. He was seen at 1.25 a.m. by a nightwatchman, when he appeared to be normal, and at 1.45, Sergeant Dunlop, who expected to meet him on .the wharf, found no trace of him. The body was found in the water some -distance from Victoria wharf. It is surmised that the deceased tripped and fell into the harbour.

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HAMILTON, January 28. A drowning fatality occurred at Horseshoe Lake, near Frankton, on Sunday afternoon, when a youth, Robert Leighton, aged 17 years, a son of Mr K. Leighton, of Frankton, lost his life. Leighton was swimming with other lads at tbe lake. He became separated from his companions, who were occupied in launching an old boat. Leighton disappeared without warning. Jrlis clothes were found on the where he undressed, and it was concluded that he was drowned. His body was recovered this morning. While taking ETs customary daily bathe in the water-race of the Horahora power-house on Sunday morning, a labourer named Albert Tomlin about 40 years of age, was drowned. He was alone at the time, so no one saw him disappear. The body was later recovered. Deceased was a married man. He lived with his wife and twochildren near the power-house extension construction work, where he was employed. He was a recent arrival from England. DROWNED IN SHALLOW WATER. AUCKLAND, January 28. Alfred Patrick Doolan, aged 36, a married man, was drowned while creasing the Tamoki river on Saturday evening. He was rowing a friend, Owen Lewis, across to a camp, when he took a spell. An oar fell overboard, and Doolan dived after it. His companion saw him wading ashore, but when the boat drifted to land, he found that Doolan had disappeared. His body was subsequently found in shallow water. DROWNED IN SHEEP DIP. NEW PLYMOUTH, January 28. The police received information that Gordon Old, a child about two years old, and the adopted son of a settler named Spence, at Waikawa, north of Awakino, was drowned in a sheep dip on Saturday. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.