MAN DROWNED
SOX'S GALLANT EFFORT TO SAA'E HIM (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. After being buffeted by wind and wave for hours in the liangitoto Channel after the small sailing boat in which he was attempting to cross from Devonport to Tamaki had been swamped, Henry Burnitt, aged about 55, was drowned yesterday, in spite of the courageous and dogged efforts of his son, Thomas Henry Burnitt, who himself narrowly escaped drowning, to save him. The son supported his father in the water for some time, but when the boat was finally washed ashore on Long Point, Eangitoto, his father was lifeless. Mr. Henry Burnitt was a paperhanger and painter residing at the corner of Symonds street and Mount street. __^^__^_____
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 10
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123MAN DROWNED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 10
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