ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DROWNING ACCIDENT. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 5. A dingey manned by George Clark and Alfred Clyde Millett' capsized off Pollock, in Manukau Harbour, yesterday, and Millett was drowned, ' Clark tried in vain to assist his companion, and nearly lost his own life in the attempt. He reached shore in a state of exhaustion. Millett was carried away by the backwash of a big ware
OLD MAN'S SUDDEN DEATH. Sidney Phipps, sixty-seven years of age,- a carpet-layer by trade, died in the Christohurclr Hospital this afternoon. He was engaged' at the D.1.0. on a casual job of laying carpets in the show-rooms, wh«n he became unconscious. He was removed, to the Hospital/ where he died about half an hour later without regaining consciousness. Phipps, who wsided at 83, Huxley Street, Sydenham, and had a grown-up family of live, was born in Wiltshire, England, And had been resident in New Zealand for fifty years. An inquest will be held. "
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9918, 5 August 1910, Page 3
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