DBOWNING ACCIDENT.
MARRIED MAN LOSES LIFE. COMPANION WALKS OUT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TALMERSTON NORTH, Monday. Mr. Ronald Drummond, a married man with three children, was drowned in the Manawatu River to-day. ■ Mr. Drummond and a companion, Mr. Walter Hosking, has been across the river in a boat to attend to some hawsers which were swung across the river to haul buckets of gravel to and fro. Mr. Drummond attempted to catch hold of the rope and the boat upset. Both men fell into the water, but they managed to grasp a swinging cable. Mr. Hosking found that ho could touch the bottom, so ho walked out. Mr. Drummond, who was a good swimmer, set out after the boat, which had drifted away. He kept in sight for 150 yds, but was not seen again.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 172, 23 July 1929, Page 5
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