FARMER DROWNED
PELORUS SOUND TRAGEDY (By 'IVaeraph—ifcss Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. After a four-hour struggle to shift a launch to safety in a north-west gale on Saturday night, John Clinton Maling Greensill, single, of Ohingaroa, a well-known sheep farmer in Pelorus Sound, disappeared overboard during the short absence of a companion. His body was subsequently found on the beach. Mr. Greensill, accompanied by an employee named Meikle, went out in a rowboat to move to a sheltered mooring a launch which was threatened by the gale. By midnight they had succeeded in their object and Meikle went ashore for a crowbar to make a new mooring. When he returned Greensill was missing and he found his body three-quarters of an hour later.
A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at an inquest.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 10
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