ACCIDENTS
NINE YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED
FALL INTO HOLE IN RIVER
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 12.
Geoffrey Lionel Wilson, aged nine, a son of Mr and Mrs C. Wilson, of 35 Braeview crescent, was drowned early tonight when he fell into a hole in the Leith river, upstream from the George street bridge. With another boy he had been playing near the hole, when he apparently lost his footing and tumbled down the sheer banks into the water.
A passer-by jumped into the pool, which is several feet deep, but because the water was muddy after recent rain he could not find the boy. After feeling the bottom of the pool with his feet, however, the man discovered the boy and brought him to the bank. Artificial respiration was tried without success.
The spot at which the drowning occurred is well-known to residents in the northern end of the city as the “big black hole,” and over the years has had a record of drownings and near-drownings. It is believed that after a double drowning there in 1939 fencing was put round the hole, but this has disappeared. -Press, 13/3/1956.
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.
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