SAMOAN DROWNED IN FLOODED RIVER
CAPSIZE OF BOAT Press Association. HASTINGS, To-day. A distressing fatality occurred in the Tukituki about half a mile up-stream from the bridge yesterday evening, whereby a Samoan, Thomas Timmo, aged 35 years, single, an employes of the Havelock North Town Board, was drowned. The main transmission lines, conveying electric current to Havelock North, required repairs at a pier carrying the wires, situated in midstream. The Tukituki, though it subsided after the flood, was still running a torrent, and the board’s engineer and deceased put off in a boat and the repairs were completed. But in returning to the shore the boat got broadside against the waves and both men were swept away. The engineer, Mr. Leicester, who made great efforts to rescue his companion, reached a snag and got ashore, but Timmo was carried down farther, and though further efforts were made to reach him he was drowned, i The body not yet been recovered.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 13
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