TRAGEDY OF A JEST.

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 2

TRAGEDY OF A JEST.

While bathing from the shore at Louisa Gap, Broadstairs, on July 31, Mr Richard Donald Andrew, a married man, aged 35, in business as a general draper at Broadstairs, was drowned. Mr H. W. Ga-rnham. a visitor, and another bather, who answered Mr Andrew's cries for kelp, returned to the beach, in an exhausted condition as the result of their efforts to help him. Bt'foro leaving home Mr Andrew had laughingly asked his wife if she would accompany him, and when she declined he jokingly tj iey -were his last words to ins wife.