DISTRESSING FATALITY.
JIUBBASD AND WIFE DROWNED. , CAPSIZING OF A PUNT. (By TTelepraph.—Press Aeeoclatlou.) WEOTPQRT, this day. A sad boating. fatality occurred at Lake Brunuer on Saturday evening. Mr and 'Mrs Green and family went out. on ' the lake in two boats, and Mr and Mis ; Green and boy,,(aged 14 years), in a flat-bottomed boat, had proceeded as far ~ as Horseshoe Bay, and were returning between .5 and 6 o'clock on their homeward way, when the boy decided to change places with his father. They were in the act of changing when the boat capsized. Aβ soon as the boat filled ■Mγ and Mrs Green sank, and the boy did not see them again. The.lad.hting on to the bottom of the boat till the second boat ense up, when he was rescued. The occupants of the second boat spent a considerable time in searching for Mr and Mrs Green, but without avail. The boy states that his father could swim, and it is surmised that in trying to rescue Mrs Green both were drowned.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 250, 19 October 1908, Page 4
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