FISHING FATALITY
CRAFT CAPSIZES ON BAR By Telegraph—Press Association PUKEKOHE, November 9. Thomas Taylor, married, who was a sharemilker at Akaaka, was drowned at Waikato Heads. Taylor and Leslie Henry, a farmer, went for a day’s fishing in an open boat, equipped with an outboard motor. Apparently they ventured over the bar and the boat upturned in the boisterous weather. Henry tied Taylor to the craft, which was washed down the coast for 15 miles and when the. craft came ashore Taylor was dead and Henry was suffering from exhaustion and exposure.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21190, 10 November 1938, Page 6
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