Accidents and Fatalities.
PRESS ASSOCIATION - Whaugarei, lasi nighi. L ' I A 00-operative laborer named Peter -1 Williamson, aged 88, has been drowned through the swamping of his diughy. , Stratford, last night, ' A bush contractor named George I Kronk, aged 25, a single man, was drowned whilst fording the Mangebu river I near Strathmore, on Saturday afternoon. His horso fouled some logs in the bed of
I the stream, which was in flood at the time, I Some seitiers namad Martin saw the
I borse raoe over and the rider disappear beneath the river’s muddy waters. Xhe I body was recovered on Sunday morning. Nelson, last night. Yesterday, during a stiff south-wester, I two boys, named Harry JaoksoD, a son of Mr B. 0. Jackson, now on the New Zealand bowliDg tour, and a lad named Moynihan, were attempting to paddle a I esnoe to the Boulder bank, when the canoe capsized. Jackson managed to swim ashore, and was much exhausted, but Moynihan was lost sight of, and it is feared that he was drowned. The search is continuing to-day. The lads had camped the previous night on the Boulder bankt
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1918, 30 October 1906, Page 2
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