DROWNING FATALITY AT FOXTON
F.OXTON, March 27. A drowning fatality occurred at Robinson's Lake yesterday afternoon. Samuel Baker and Peter Baker, aged 24 and 26 years, brothers and both married men, were drowned. They were fishing in a boat for eels, accompanied by a lad named John Gup well. The boat was swamped. Sam Baker was assisting the boy when he saw his brother in difficulties and swam back to him, and both disappeared. The bodies have not yet been recovered.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 7
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81DROWNING FATALITY AT FOXTON Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 March 1922, Page 7
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