YOUTH DROWNED
TRAGIC OCCURRENCE By TelegrnpD Press Association AUCKLAND, January 9. “Watch me swim back,” called Walter Henry Barlow’, aged 18, to his cousins Joan O'Connor (11) and Peter O'Connor (nine), after he had swum out into the stream while bathing about 50 yards on the south side of the Tamaki bridge yesterday. Tragically the youth then disappeared. A son of Harry Barlow, of Grey Lynn, he arrived from England less than four w’eeks ago to join his father, who is a well-known member of the Auckland Municipal Band. . The boy had been living with his grandjnother in England, and this was his first visit to New Zealand. He w’as to celebrate his eighteenth birthday on Monday, and was stopping with his father’s sister. The other children gave the alarm, but the rescuers were unable to find any trace of the boy. The body w’as recovered in the evening.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20931, 10 January 1938, Page 6
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149YOUTH DROWNED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20931, 10 January 1938, Page 6
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