DEATH AT DAY'S BAY
A BATHER COLLAPSES IN THE SEA. A fatality occurred at Day's Bay at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Alfred Enckson, a 'flaxmill hand, employed at AneellV Mill, Featherston, went in for a bathe, and while in the water lie collapsed and died. Deceased was a'single man, 49 years of age, and was upending a holiday in Wellington. It is believed that death was due to heart failure. Eriekson was a Norwegian, who had followed the sea before becoming a flaxmill hand in the Wairarapa. He drove round to the bay on Tuesday night with some friends, and went in to .bathe yesterday morning with two of them (W. Walling and I. Bergstrom). The water, was very cold.- After a while AVallilig and Ber'gstrom noticed Eriekson 'floating on the surface of the water, and rushed io his assistance. They carried him to the beach, and resorted to artificial respiration, but without success. Dr. Shand, who is living at the bay for a time, was summoned, and pronounced lifo extinct: '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 83, 2 January 1919, Page 4
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171DEATH AT DAY'S BAY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 83, 2 January 1919, Page 4
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