BAR FATALITIES.
PILOT AND HIS ASSISTANT DEOWNED.
,(Per Press Asaoclation.) Wanganui, last night. News was received to-night that the Patea pilot (Captain Pet9rsoD) and his assistant (Charles Larsen) were drowned*” While taking foundings on the Patea bar this afternoon. The bodies have not been found.
TTTU-. Wanganui, iast night. While Martin Peterson, pilot at Patea, ana an assistant were engagad in taking soundings on tbe bar to-day, the boat they were in capsized and both were drowned. Peterson was formerly master of the steamer Aorore, and had been a couple of years at Patea.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1706, 23 March 1906, Page 2
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94BAR FATALITIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1706, 23 March 1906, Page 2
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