SWEPT OUT TO SEA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10474, 3 January 1928, Page 4

SWEPT OUT TO SEA

FATALITY ON^WAILANAE YOUNG SEAMAN DROWNED OE|H| DIVERSION CUT WALL « . The official New dear’s Pay terday was marred m Gisborne fatality on Waikanae Beach, when young seaman on The Elsie . named Patrick Roff, lost hishfe.j ■; Soon after two o cloak companion named Albert Ana were seen near the end of the divei . « sion wall. At that time very heaVy«H seas were occasionally breaking the structure. One wave dashed • ;|||| the wall and soaked Anderson * ifjHJ Roff. Then a second very heavy R ffl| burst over. Anderson. egiWg*- f # sheiter of a block, but Itoff f J dressed in trousers and singlet swept into tho cut near the to the sea, and was noticed by, [ tutors paddling as if endeavou*7 ■ get ashore. Mr John Ale Laugh! in down in order to render assisran » but Roff suddenly disappeared, -jm very heavy sea was coming in> a strong undertow, and the tine running out rapidly, and tnere:||g, lit tlo doubt that he was swept Oui» A. keen watch was kept but Tau li was no sign of the missing man. M At six o’clock Air Quigley wejat oujr in the G.S.F.M. launch, hut thev got to the river entrance breakers almost overturned the iitt-«e» vessel and the party returned. M The crew of the Elsie Alary anrW tile police patrolled the beach night, and if necessary will perioriwi the same duty to-day, ' * Those who witnessed thej accideijii yesterday state that with the fern® seas running there was. no chance a small boat attempting a rescue. J The deceased’s brother, v let®! - Rolf, is mate on tfle Elsie. Mary,_ 1