CAPSIZE OF DREDGE.
NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOUR. ENGINEER - DROWNED [BY TELEGRAPH. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. About noon to-day tho Harbour Board's dredge Thomas King, while engaged depositing stone at the breakwater extension, capsized owing to a skip not working properly. „ : . ; - v Of the crew of fiva two reached thtt breakwater safely, and boats picked up the other three, but one man, Mr. J. Brokenshire, engineer,.- an elderly... man, was ■ dead, having apparently been drowned. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 6
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74CAPSIZE OF DREDGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 6
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