YOUTH DROWNED
FELL OFF JETTY. BRAVE RESCUE ATTEMPT. [ Per Press AssccJat oD. CHRIST CHURCH, Nov. 24. While fishing with two companions from a jetty at Governor’s Bay James Herbert McFaul, aged 14, of Whiteleigh. Street, Addington, fell into the sea and was drowned. McFaul was walking backwards on the jetty when he fell. One boy threw in a lifebuoy and the other, James Kevin, aged 12, stripped and went to assist Alclaul. Kevin managod after a hard struggle to bring McFaul to the rocks on the shore but McFaul was dead. Resuscitation measures were tried for an hour but without avail.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 26 November 1935, Page 6
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