YOUTH LOSES LIFE
FISHING EXPEDITION ENDS IN TRAGEDY A fishing expedition at Raumati beach, a few miles south of Paraparamu, on Friday evening, ended in tragedy, when James. Alexander Rust Bain, aged 20, the youngest of a party of four, was drowned. At about 6.30 p.m. the men started frfom Raumati beach to trawl for fish with a net. Messrs Davey and Bain, two of the party, were in a row-boat letting the net out over the side, and the other two men were on shore holding the end of the net. When the boat had gone about 200 yards from the beach it swamped. Davey told Bain, could not swim, that he would go ashore and help drag the boat back. He left Bain clinging to the boat. When the boat was dragged to the shore, Bain was found, with a rope wound round one hand, behind the boat. All efforts at artificial respiration were unavailing.
At an inquest on Saturday, a verdict of death from accidental drowning was returned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 April 1938, Page 8
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