NAPIER BREAKWATER ACCIDENT

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1910, Page 6

NAPIER BREAKWATER ACCIDENT

ANOTHER. LIFE LOST

SWEPT OFF BY A WAVE

(Per Press Association)

NAPIER.. April 26. Another sightseer at Napierj breakwater lost his life this afternoon in ■exactly the c r,me manner as did George Duncan yesterday. The victim of the tragedy is a young man named Harry Holland who was walking along the breakwater wharf with two friends when a, wave swept over them and rarried .Holland into tlie harbour. The mishap was witnessed by a number of people in the vic.'aity and efforts to rescue him we>re soon' imt frrtli.' A lifebelt wac thrown to 'him :nid just as he reached out for 't m w;i\e ;1 :\J\ed him away from it and ho f-ank. Mr D. Shanahan dived, in bul l'o wns too late to effect rescue. Meanwhile o - boat manned by Messrs H. Smith. Wright and Melvy was under way.and within a few. mJinutes by n.oi.is of grappling irons the body was recovered and rased to the wharf wli«rp..'f]i'i'rts to restore animation were made v,i;hcut success. The dececsed •• "is a'»..»Mnineteen years of age and wart until , recently employed on the trawler Pania now laid up.