NATURALIST DROWNED
SWEPT FROM ROCKS l Press Association DUNEDIN, Monday. At an inquest into the death of Catherine Willis Begg, which occurred near Lawyer’s Head on October 1, a verdict of accidental drowning was returned. According to the evidence, deceased was an official collector for the natural history section of the national museum of Wales, and was in the habit of collecting specimens from rocks and pools along the coast. She was not acquainted with this coast where there are many kelp-covered rocks which are accessible at low tide, but washed by breakers. Indications were that she was swept from one of these rocks. Deceased's shoes indicated that she had slipped.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 480, 9 October 1928, Page 13
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111NATURALIST DROWNED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 480, 9 October 1928, Page 13
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