ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
SAILOR’S FOOLHARDY SWIM. LOSES LIFE AT SEA. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last, nightWhile the warship Dunedin was an chore.! off Waiwera. Seaman Allan Wil ham Millar, single, aged 29, was drowned. The Dunedin was half a mile off the shore, and Millar tried to swim out from the shore to his ship. He disappeared, and dragging operations failed to recover the body. Millar was fully clothed at the time and the water was very cold. He had been in the Navy twelve years, being transferred from Home, waters. MCTOR-RUS ACCIDENT. PASSENGER'S FATAL INJURIES. AUCKLAND, lasi, night. Tin death occurred-in hospital ot Bernard lfousiaux, aged 24.. who was injured in a motor-car accident on September IS. Deceased was a passenger in a moior-ear driven hv J. OTlarrlon, which collided with a motor-bus owned hy the General Omnibus Co. Housiaux was injured about the face and head, and an operation was performed tor the removal of one eye.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 2
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159ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 2
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