MARRIED MAN’S DEATH

Southland Times, Issue 24576, 27 October 1941, Page 4

MARRIED MAN’S DEATH

Drowning In Hole In Waipori River (P.A.) DUNEDIN, October 26. When a small flat bottomed boat capsized in the Waipori river on Saturday afternoon its three occupants were thrown into a deep hole which had been dredged for gravel, and Cuthbert Earl McKeag, of George street, Dunedin, married, aged 34, was drowned. The body was later recovered. McKeag, together with A. J. Bracegirdle and J. J. Pledger, both of whom live in Wilkie road, Dunedin, went on a shooting expedition and, seeing a small boat, went out in it on the Waipori river. It capsized over deep water and McKeag was unable to reach the bank, though the other men succeeded in doing so. RETIRED FARMERS’ DEATH (P.A.) AUCKLAND, October 26. A retired farmer collapsed and died on a crowded grandstand at Alexandra Park, Epsom, on Saturday afternoon about the time of the running of the last race at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. He was George Henry Hawkes, aged 60, married, of Remuera. BOY BREAKS HIS ARM

Walter James Eade, aged 11 years, of 96 Jenkins street, Invercargill, broke his forearm when he fell from a bicycle. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital yesterday afternoon.