LOST IN SURF.
MEN SWEPT OUT OF BOAT FATALITY AT NEW-PLYMOUTH. IBy Telegrapli—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 9. Falling out of a flat-bottomed boat in the surf at Fitzroy beach yesterday, Percy Samuel Haskell, a labourer, was drowned. The boat, containing Haskell, Thomas Edwin Lester, and Harold Norman Berntsen, was nearing the shore when a large breaker threw up the stern, in which Haskell was sitting. Haskell was thrown forward and fell overboard. Another wave threw the boat ashore. The other two men saw Haskell stand up, in water up to his chest. He called for help, and almost immediately disappeared. The boat was again launched mid tlie vicinity searched, but the body has not yet been found. Haskell was 42 years of age and was a married man with four children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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