TRIPLE DROWNING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 269, 27 August 1935, Page 5

TRIPLE DROWNING

YOUNG MEN LOSE LIVES.

DINGHY FATALITY IN ESTUARY. FATE OF A HOLIDAY-MAKER. (Per Press Association } INVERCARGILL, This Day. Mr Frederick Wybrow, a single man. aged 2G, a labourer, Mr Percy Wybrow, aged 18, a fisherman, of Waiwaka, and Mr George Meßurney, aged 24, a shop assistant, who was on holiday, were drowned in the Waikawa Estuary yesterday afternoon. The three men went on a pleasure cruise in a dinghy, which was later found overturned, there being no trace of the occupants. Search for the bodies is being made. No one witnessed the ao cident, but it is supposedi the dinghy capsized in rough water.

KILLED BY FALL OF EARTH.

NAPIER, August 26.

Mr Thomas. Sweetings, aged 35, a. married man, with one child, was killed by a fall of earth at P'etane this morning. He was working on a Public Works Department piece job. A slip was seen to he coming and the others got clear. Sweetings fell., and the debris fell all over him. THROWN FROM HORSE. TOE KUITI, August 26. Practically no hope is held out for the recovery of Mr Allan Cullen, aged 22, a farm hand, of Piopio, who, suffering from serious head' injuries through being tossed off a horse, was admitted to the Te Hospital on Saturday. He bad not regained consciousness to-day. It appears that the young man was thrown when during drafting operations, his horse suddenly stopped when walloping downhill. Mr Cullen is a son of Mr P. S. Cullen, of Piopio.