ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
On Sunday, while Alexander Leslie Morrison, aged thirty-three, and a Maori named Manuka Lera, where out on the Tangoria Lake (Napier) in a small boat, preparing for tho shooting season, the craft capsized, and the former was drowned. , The Maori went ashore, returned to the spot with help, and brought out tho deceased, who then appeared to be living, but was dead when the doctor arrived. At tho inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
John Bouchard, a French-Canadian seaman on the schooner Forest Homo, fell oerboard last night. _ Efforts made to recover tho body failed (then, but this morning it was recovered from the bottom of the harbor. —Wellington Association message.
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Evening Star, Issue 18263, 1 May 1923, Page 4
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116ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 18263, 1 May 1923, Page 4
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