DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3132, 8 March 1909, Page 5

DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 7. A drowning accident occurred at Tomahawk yesterday, the victim being Alexander Maxwell, aged 23 years, son of Mr Henry Maxwell, Registrar of Electors. The deceased and a brother, aged 21 years, went for a bathe, and almost immediately afterwards the deceased was seen a considerable distance out in the surf. He suddenly disappeared and was seen no more. The deceased ws a good swimni".. NAPIER, Marc. .\ A boy of eight yeais, named ' Maurice Edward Hughes, was drowned in the surf near the southern ■end of *he Marine Parade on Satur- - day s>f ternoon. There was a heavy .sea, and the boy was caught by the backwash. Mr S. E. McCarthy, . S.M., recorded a verdict of accident- . ally drowned. The Conner added a rider as follows: "Th 3 Coroner desires to direct public attention to the fact that a view of the body disclosed the fact that a man, his wife, and three children lived in a one-roomed • outhouse not more than ten feet long, by six feet wide, whicn was without ventilation of any kind. The body of deceased was laid on a table along- , side a sleeping child."

DROWNING ACCIDENT NEAR GLADSTONE. News was received in Carterton vesterday afternoon of the death of Mr George Burnett by drowning at Mr T. J. Rathbone's Admiral Mill, writes our Carterton correspondent. Particulars to hand are meagre. It - appears that deceased was employed at the mill as teamster, and yesterday morning was giving his horses a drink, after which he tcok them in for a swim. He either dismounted, or was thrown off, one of the animals • treading on him, with the above result. The deceased was well-known in the Forty Mile Bush district, and at one time he had a livery stable at Dannevirke. He is a son of Mrs Burnett, senr., of Belvedere, and was of a genial disposition and highly popular with all who knew him. He - was 36 years of age, and had been married seven years, nis wife being a Miss Elliott, formerly of Mauricevllle. Besides Mrs Burnett, two children, one aged 5 years and the other three months, are left. Arrangements have been made for the body to be brought into Carterton this morning, and the inquest will be held at the residence of his mother. The place wliere the fatality oc- ■ curred is about two and a half chains from the mill, and is a deep hole, recognised as a bathing place. Mr Rathbone, owner of the mill, and a relative of the deceased, will leave for the scene of the accident early this morning.

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