ANOTHER TRAGEDY.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 4

ANOTHER TRAGEDY.

SWEPT OFF THE BREAKWATER

A YOUNG-SUN'S SAD FATE.

TEH PEES 3 ASSqCIATIOIJ. . , Napier, April 2G. Another sightseer at Napier breakwater lost his life this afternoon in exactly the same manner as did George Duncan yesterday. The victim of the tragedy, a younoman named Harry Holland, ing along_ the Breakwater AVharf with two friends, when a wave swept over them and carried Holland into the harbour. The. mishap was witnessed by a number of people in the vicinity and efforts to rescue him were soon put forth. A lifebelt was thrown him, and just as he reached out for it a waves washed him away from it, .and he sank. Mr D. Shanahan dived in. but be was too late to effect a rescue. Meanwhile a boat manned by Messrs H. bniith, Wright, and M'elvy was under weigh, and within a few "minutes, by means of grappling irons, the body was recovered and raised to the wharf, where efforts to restore animation were made without success. The deceased was about 19 years of age, and was, until recently, 'employed on the trawler Pania, now laid up.