WASHED OFF A ROCK
FOUR DROWNED
(By Telegraph Per Press Associatio:
NAPIER, April 20. While standing on the beach , nea
Tongoio oil the sea side of an isolate rocky eminence, about middayVye'ster day, a father aild liis two soils ' wercaught by a wave, washed' into the surf and drowned, and a-ysjjung nia) who went to their assistance' also lost In's life. The victims of the tragedy
were:— William James Trgtsk, aged 54, fore man at McLeod aud Gardiner’s saw mill, at Pnketitere, and residing at Tastings. Robert Dotiald Trask, son of tin former yictrm, aged 18, employed as a plumber ,v in Hastings. ' Frauds Gordon Trask, another son. employed'’'as a ear painter in Hast-
Stanley Arthur, Jones, shop assistant, aged -24, cif Hastings.
,-Two bodies were recovered shortly after the tragedy, and although artificial respiration was immediately resorted to. the task of bringing them hack to life was seen to he a hopeless one. The other two bodies were recovered later in the afternoon. An inonCist was formally opened today for the purposes of identification and was then adjourned.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1930, Page 3
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