LAUNCH DESTROYED.
OWNER NEARLY DROWNED. (By Telepraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Fire destroyed the launch Wairete. worth £BOO, off Devonport wharf, at 3.45 o'clock this afternoon, and the owner, Mr Robert Maynall, who was overcome by the fumes in an endeavour to quench the flames, fell overboard unconscious and was rescued by his two companions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16748, 15 March 1926, Page 6
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