ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
TWO PERSONS DROWNED. FBESS ASSOCIATION'. AUCKLAND, March 14. Last night, about 11 o'clock, a boa* containing William Reid, James Perk, May Mills and Mary Campbell, capsized in the harbour, two of the party being drowned. It'appears that the four left in a dinghy to go on board their fishing yachts. Perk was pulling, the women sitting forward, and Reid aft; ' The women, it is said, began to squabble, and then scuffle, and shortly after clearing the end of the jetty the boat capsized. fishermen named Joe Winters and Petone, • hearing the_ cries of the drowning people, jumped into thordinghy and succeeded,in picking up Mary Campbell, and Constable McDonnell, with the crew of the'ketch Lizette picked hip Wm. Reid. , Both the man and the woman rescued were in a vpfy exhausted state when brought ashore. ;
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4306, 15 March 1901, Page 5
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