CAPSIZE OF DREDGE.
FATALITY AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
(Per Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. About noon to-day the Harbor Board's dredge, Thomas King, while engaged in depositing stone at the breakwater extension, capsized owing to the skip not working properly. Of the crew of fivo two reached tho breakwater safely; boats picked up the other three, but one, J. Brokenshiro, engineer, an elderly man, was dead. He had apparently been drowned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 6
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71CAPSIZE OF DREDGE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16113, 30 April 1923, Page 6
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