THROWN FROM BOAT
MAN DROWNED IN SURF Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, To-day. Falling out of a flat-bottomed boat in the surf at Fitzroy Beach on Saturday, Percy Samuel Haskell, a labourer, was drowned. The boat, containing Haskell, Thomas Edwin Lester and Harold Norman Bernsten, was nearing the shore when a large breaker threw up the stern, in which Haskell was sitting. He. was thrown forward, and foil overboard. Another wave threw' the boat ashore. The other two men saw Haskell stand up in th«* water, up to his chest. He called for help. ai«l almost immediately disappeared. The boat was launched again, and a search was made, but the body has not yet been found. Haskell was 42 years old. and a married man with four children.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 9
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127THROWN FROM BOAT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 9
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