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WELLINGTON BOY DROWNED NO WITNESS OF ACCIDENT Press Association WELLINGTON, Sunday. A drowning accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, when Eric Douglas, aged 17 years, residing with his parents at Donald McLean Street, Newtown, lost his life through his canoe overturning at Island Bay. Douglas, who was a tailor’s apprentice, left town on Saturday afternoon at about 1 p.m. for Island Bay. He was accompanied by a boy named Claude Jupp. The two went out in a canoe belonging to Douglas, and returned to the shore. Then Douglas said he was going across to the island off shore, and left in the canoe alone. Shortly afterwards, Jupp states, he saw a crowd on the western beach. He proceeded there, and found that his friend’s body had been recovered from the water. Nobody seems to have witnessed the accident. Three men, while standing on the shore near the launch harbour, saw an upturned canoe and a pair of hands showing above the water. They went over to the spot in a dinghy, and with the aid of grappling irons recovered the body of Douglas, and brought it ashore.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 16
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