YOUNG FISHERMAN DROWNED
WASHED OVERBOARD PROM
BOAT
MATE’S BRAVE RESCUE EFFORT
By Telegraph—Press Association, GISBORNE, this day.
A young fisherman, Alexander Nelson (20), was washed overboard from his boat off Turihaua Beach yesterday, and though his companion, Reginald Hart, made a gallant effort at rescue Nelson was drowned. He was hampered by the fact that he was wearing two pairs of trousers and heavy gum boots.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXIX, Issue 8300, 21 April 1932, Page 3
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