BOATING FATALITY.
SON’S COURAGEOUS ATTEMPT TO SAVE FATHER,
Auckland, January 5
A i tor being bulleted by wind and wave for hours in the Rangitoto Channel after the small sailing boat in which he was* attempting to cross from Devonport to Tamaki had been swamped, Henry Biirnitt, aged 55, was drowned this morning, in spite of the courageous and dogged efforts of his son, Thomas Henry 'Burnitt, who himself narrowly escaped drowning, to save him.
The son supported his father in the water for some time, but when the boat was finally washed ashore on Long Point, Rangitoto, his father was lifeless.
Mr. Henry Burnitt was a paperhangejr and painter residing at the corner of Symonds Street and Mount Street.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4038, 7 January 1930, Page 2
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120BOATING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4038, 7 January 1930, Page 2
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