DROWNING FATALITIES
TWO BOATS CAPSIZE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this-riay. Yesterday afternoon a, boat capsized in Porirua harbor and two of its occupants were drowned. It contained six young men, who were crossing tho harbor.* The accident was witnessed by William Mills, who rowed, to the rescue* and saved four. The other two John Newborn, 23, and J. R. M&sterton, 18, could not be found, though four launches searched for them., J. L. Johnston, a young Wellington man, was drowned at Lake Perry, Wairarapa, last night, as a result of the capsizing of a launch.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 6
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95DROWNING FATALITIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 6
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