BOATING TRAGEDY
MARRIED MAN DROWNED P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 31. One person was drowned and four others and a child were thrown into the water when a small fiat-bottomed boat capsized in the Avon River near the Bower bridge, Newq Brighton, about 4 o’clock to-day. The man drowned was Gordon John Hammond, married, aged about 40, of 9 Baker street, North Brighton. Hammond, together with Alexander McAllister. Frank Sinclair, Molly Sinclair, Allen Warren, the owner of the boat, and Dorothy Sinclair, a child aged three, were going for a trip in the boat up the river. It was powered with a small outboard motor which drove, its nose under when it was started. The boat capsized and the five were thrown into the river. Frank Sinclair managed to rescue the child, and the others drew themselves out of the water by grasping branches of overhanging willow trees. Hammond, however, failed to reach the bank, and his body was,-recovered several hours later by the police
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26917, 1 November 1948, Page 6
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