SURE TRAGEDY.
SEA TRAPS WORKMAN. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. Caught by the incoming surf while carting shingle on the beach at Obiro Bay, Wellington, yesterday, Harry Perrett, a married man, aged 68, was swept into the sea and drowned. His companion, a boy, managed to escape by climbing cn to the rocks. The point at which the accident occurred is passable only at low tide. Mr Perrett had been carting metal from the place'with a three-horse dray. He was about to drive out with the last load when a heavy sea swept up the beach toward the cliff under which he was working, overturned the dray, and swept it out to sea. Mr Perrett was drowned, as were the three horses. The body has been recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 230, 27 August 1938, Page 8
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128SURE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 230, 27 August 1938, Page 8
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