ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
MOkYNEUX MYER FATALITY. The police were informed yesterday by Constable Weir, of .Balclutha, that Frederick Watkins, a single man, sixty years of age, was drowned that afternoon in the' Molyneux River. Deceased, a farmer, was driving a dray -with, two horses—one in the shafts and the other "leading"—across the rivei onJus v/ay to Manuka Island, and -when in midstream the horses got into difficulties. Deceased made an attempt to- liberate tbem, and succeeded in gecting one dear, but was lost while trying to save the other. Constable Weir and " Constable Turner, of Kaitaagata, were dragging the river to-day in an endeavor to recover the body.
A Wanganui message states that-.Percy Stitt, about twenty-five years old, was drowned at Gastlecliff this morning. He was a visitor, and was employed in' the General .Post Office, Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 17543, 24 December 1920, Page 6
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