TRIPLE DROWNING TRAGEDY
BOAT CAPSIZED IN AHAURA RIVER. By Telecraph—Press Association. Greymouth, April 23. A triple drowning tragedy occurred today in the Ahaura Elver. About 1.30 p.m. William Oysell, an engine-driver, aged fifty, and John Brosnau, aged. 30, and Thomas Reynolds, aged 45, dredgo hands, were in n, boat engaged in the work of* moving the Ahaura dredgo downstream in a fresli, for dismantling, when the'boat, by some means, capsized. The men all disappeared and were not again seen. The boat'was drifting away when the dredgeniaster first noticed the accident The bodies have not .been recovered yeO Crysell leaves a wife and a irrown-iip family of three, at Ahaura. Brosnan leave a }\ih and two children at Waikaia, Otago. Reynolds was a single man. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 4
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124TRIPLE DROWNING TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 4
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