BOATING FATALITY
<♦<► MAN DROWNED IN SURF. (’Ky Telegraph—Press Association). NEW PLYMOUTH, Dee. !). Falling out of a flat-hot turned boat in the surf at Kit/.roy Reach yesterday, Percy Samuel Haskell, a. labourer, of Smart Road, was drowned. The boat, containing Haskell. Thomas -Edwin Lester and Harold Norman Bernstcn, was nearing the shore when a. large breaker threw up the stern, in which Haskell was silling. Haskell was thrown forward, and tell overhoard. Another wave threw-the boat -ashore. The other two men saw Haskell stand up in the witter up to his chest. He called for help and also most immediately disappeared. The boat wav again launched, and the vicinity searched, hut the body hits not yet boon found. Haskell was 42 years of age, married, with four children.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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127BOATING FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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