DROWNED OFF A HULK.
IN WELLINGTON HARBOUR
Wellington, Dec. 16
James Waterstreet, aged 52, was drowned in the harbour this afternoon.
He was the keeper of the hulk Solgran, which had just been towed out to its moorings by the tug Terawhiti. Waterstreet and another, Green, were fixing the lines to the mooting buoy when the rope broke and both were knocked into the water. ' Green caught a line thrown from the tug and was hauled aboard, but Waterstreet was not seen again.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1197, 17 January 1914, Page 2
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83DROWNED OFF A HULK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1197, 17 January 1914, Page 2
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