TWO MEN DROWNED

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 72, 27 March 1922, Page 8

TWO MEN DROWNED

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FOXTON

This Day.

A fatality occurred at Robinson's Lake yesterday afternoon, when Samuel Baker and Peter Baker, brothers, aged 26 and 24 years respectively, both married, wer« drowned. They were fishing in a boat for eels, and wore accompanied by a ladl named John Gupwell, when the boat j swamped. Sam Baker was assisting the boy when ho saw his brother in difficulties, and swam back to him, and both ■ disappeared. The bodies have not yet . been recovered. William John Port, a well-known farmer and early settler at Awahuri, after attending the Feilding sale on Friday, was found in a whare on his farm lying unconscious on the floor with n bullet wound in the hear], and a discharged pba-riflq by his side. He was conveyed to the Palmerston Nortli Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries this morning. An inquest will be held. ;