OARSMAN DROWNED
PLEASURE BOAT OVERTURNS TRAGEDY AT INVERCARGILL. [Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, Dec. 21. At about 3.30 on Saturday afternoon, one of the Railway Rowing Club’a boats overturned in the new river estuary. Leonard Warburton and William O’Neill, who were in the boat, got into difficulties at once, neither being able to swim. A launch passing went to their aid, but both youths sank. O’Neill was rescued by the launch, but. Warburton could not be found. Search was made by the crews of the rowing club, and Warburton’s body was recovered at about 11 o’clock the same night. The boat in which the accident occurred was an ordinary pleasure boat.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 22 December 1925, Page 9
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110OARSMAN DROWNED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 22 December 1925, Page 9
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