BOAT FATALITY
YOUNG' MAN DROWNED
Caught by a gust of wind in the channel between Quarantine Island and Otago Peninsula, a sailing-ooat which contained two men and two children capsized on Sunday afternoon. All (he occupants were thrown into the harbor. Mr William Johnson, 30, single, was drowned. The others regained tho boat and were later rescued. Mr Johnson, who was wearing gumboots, was unable, to swim. He disappeared uhmediately and his body has not been recovered.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18855, 5 November 1935, Page 2
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77BOAT FATALITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18855, 5 November 1935, Page 2
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