ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

DllOWNlil) AT SUMNEII. Per Press Association. GiiIIISTCHUECH, J)cc; 29. r J'liis afternoon Ucorge S. Hawkins, a married man, residing at Limvood, went for a bathe at,Sumner, leaving jus dollies beside Jiis wile, who was sitting on-tlie beach, lie had a bathe and returned to Ids wile, but later he again went into the has not been seen since.. The police 'made inquiries, but were unable to lind anyone who had seen the, man in the water. Dragging .operations were kept up till a late hour to-night, hut not a trace of the body has, been round. MAOIU YOUTH’S ADVKNTmtK. AYAIHI,’ Dec. 29. Jacob Toley, a Maori youth, had an exciting experience at "Waihi beach on Saturday evening. He had swum out through a big surf to a fishing launch anchored in the open. He succeeded in reaching the vessel, and raised the anchors. While engaged in starting the engine the launch got broadside.on -and turned turtle, with the Maori underneath. After considerable difficulty he disengaged himself from the. battery connections am,licking f'o the upturned vessel. Several# efforts to reach him from the shoj'A-erd futile, owing to The heavy breakeS The Maori,' though' badly injunMsfl v the. .propeller .shaft,, struck cut and after a’ desperate strp.ggl, .poached the rocks in an exhaustedj : fa 1( iiti on . Medical aid was renderrti™| M . u ,k e vouth m SBosilital. Trie bum if * \