RIVER FATALITY
OCCUPANT OF BOAT DROWNED. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL Dec. 21. At about 3.20 on Saturday afternoon one of the Railway Rowing Club’s boats overturned in the river estuary. Leonard AVarburton and AVilliam O’Neill, who were in the boat, got into difficulties at once, neither being able to swim. A passing launch went to their aid, but both youths sank. O’Neill was rescued by the launch, but AVarburton could not be found. A search was made by the crews of the Rowing Club and AVarburton’s body was recovered at about 11 o’clock the same night. The boat in which the accident occurred was an ordinary pleasure boat.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 23 December 1925, Page 14
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108RIVER FATALITY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 23 December 1925, Page 14
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