LAUNCH PICNIC TRAGEDY
TWO KILLED IN MOTOR SMASH. SYDNEY WEEK-END HOLIDAY TOLL. By Telegraph— Press Ass.n.r-Copyright. Rec. 8.55, p.m. Sydney, Qct. 5. A picnic party of 25 on Georges Rivernear Sydney had an unenviable experience to-day when the cabin of .the launch‘collated and twelve young people were into deep, water. All were rescued < but one,- who was not missed for some time. The victim was Charles Pearson, who- was drowned.. His body was recovered half an hour later. A motor-car'in'which'a'dance party was travelling'from to Albury last night .collided .with a stationary lorry., Two were killed and four badly injured;'■ The dead-are Ralph Lee, aged 19,‘arid Rupert Church’, aged 30.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1931, Page 9
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