DREDGE ENGINEER DROWNED.
New Plymouth, April 30. About noon the Harbour Board’s dredge Thomas King, while engaged in depositing stone at the breakwater extension, capsized, owing to the skip not working properly. Of the crew of five two reached the breakwater safely. Boats picked up the other three, hut one, -T. Brockenshire, the engineer, an elderly man, was dead, having apparently been drowned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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63DREDGE ENGINEER DROWNED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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