FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT IN MOTUEKA RIVER.
A YOUTH DROWNED. (By Telegraph). (iTrom Our Own Correspondent.) jytotuekaj July 1. ... A fatal bo„t accident occurred tbday, about 11 a. iri., in the. Motueka river, which is in flood. Three young men were crossing from this side in a canoe, near the site of the new bridge, on the upper side of it, aria* were carried down -stream by th 6 strong Current running ori to ______ staging in the river that is being used in connection with one of the piers of the bridge. The canoe waß overturned, and one of its occupants, named Reuben Grooby,' aged ,J7 years., was drbwne.tt. The other livvo occupants, named Wilson (who is a carpenter employed on the bridge work) and Gordon Grooby (who wae a cousin of the deceased) escaped by climbing up the staging?. The body of deceased hai. not ; been recovered. Etc was" a edn of Mr Thomas Grooby^ of Rocky River.
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11674, 9 July 1906, Page 2
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158FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT IN MOTUEKA RIVER. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11674, 9 July 1906, Page 2
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