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Breaker Bay Tragedy Special praise was bestowed at an inquest on Saturday morning by the coroner,' Mr, I. Salck. J.P., upon Mr. Alexander Bell Cook, who went to the rescue of those who were in the small fishing boat which struck a rock at Breaker Bay on April 26 last and overturned with the loss of three lives. Mr. Cook had gone to the rescue at very great risk, the coroner said, and had been successful in saving tile life of the only survivor, Francis MacPherson. When he had saved Mr. MacPherson. Mr Cook made every attempt to recover the others. The inquest, which was held at the direction of the Attorney-General, wns .in Inquiry into the deaths of George Wil Hams, aged 2S, John Pettifer. aged 30 and Robert Campbell Parker, aged 13 of whom Williams and Pettifer were both married men. None of the bodies were found. The coroner returned a finding that they had been drowned through the capsize of the fishing boat when it struck the rock.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 11
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