DROWNED WHILE FISHING
Bt Telegraph—Press Association
Auckland, January 20. A married man, J. W. Schofield, was drowned in the harbour while fishing from a dinghy moored to a launch. The sea was choppy and the dinghy capsized. A man aboard the launch jumped in to the rescue, but became exhausted in the rough water, and was forced to regain the launch. Schofield grasped a rope thrown from the launch, but then let go and sank. The body has not been recovered. Deceased was a meat canner employed by the Auckland Meat Company.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 4
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