DROWNED IN A TANK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20056, 20 September 1920, Page 7

DROWNED IN A TANK.

FARMER’S TRAGIC END. John Ollivcr Howson, a farmer, who lives at 400, Harewood Hoad, was found drowned in a tank in his garden at 7.15 a.in. to-day. He was fifty, two years of age. Mr Howson, apparently, met with a strange accident- He had been in ill health recently. He went out to work on his farm ns usual this morning faking a sack of grass seed on his hack he went down the garden with it. The theory ia that, feeling tired, on account of his illness, he sat down close to tho edgo of tho tank, _ was overbalanced by the weight on his back and 1 fell in. His body was found at the bottom of the tank with tho sack of grass seed on his face. Tho tank was an iron one, which had been sunk into the. ground. There was only about two feet of water in it, but it is stated that even a man in good health would have found some difficulty, in the circumstances, in getting out, and that a man in a weak condition could ..not possibly have got out without help. Mr Howson leaves a widow and a daughter seventeen years of age. An inquest will bo held on the farm at 4 p.m. to-day.