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WIFE SEES HUSBAND DROWN. ’ . BRISBANE, Sept.. 7. - - When an outboard motorboat overturned in rough water off Queen’s Beach, Redcliffe/' tliis David Heed, retired baker, of’ Redcliffe, was drowned. . . ; , Mrs Reed witnessed the tragedy from the beach. “ • Tvyo companions of Reed, Colonel A. and Colin lAtkinson,-'were rescued'by E. Nixoii SmithAnd'A. Hurcombe, who saw the boat overturn. The resellers rushed to the hhach, dragged a flat-bottomed jioat into the a^? r j ai *d forced .their way out in the teeth of a strong wind. ' Reed was dead when dragged aboard, and the other two were exhausted. V The party had been fishing in Deception Bay, and wheuf the wind rose they decided to return. ■; They were" within .150 yards of the beach when the stopped to bale out the water. '
T|ie boat immediately overturned. BREADS, MAN KILLED. SYDNEY, Sep. 7. Bruce Janies Robertson, 25, was Icilled .by a piece of metal from ».. . circular saw at Berala last night. V\V H.e and Ids father were sawing wops in a fuel depot afytheir liorne in' Avenue, when the saw', snapped intdMi; 1 pieces. ‘ ' •' One piece shattered Robertson’S: skull. ~ r
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1938, Page 6
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