BODY FLOATS ASHORE
PUBLICAN “GREATLY TO BLAME” LIQUOR TO DRUNKEN MAN Press Association GREYMOUTH, Monday. The body of Peter H. Kennedy, 49, miner, was washed up by the sea yesterday on Blaketown Beach. He had been missing since July 6 from his home at Dobson. At the inquest held today the coroner, Mr. W. Meldrum. S.M. expressed the opinion that the proprietor of the Bucks’ Head Hotel, Taylorville, was greatly to blame for serving Kennedy with four drinks when he was already under the influence of liqiier, and allowing him to go home after dark with nobody in attendance. A verdict of death by drowning,i . through accidentally falling into the river, was returned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 11
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