BOATING FATALITY.
AT ROTORUA.
By Telegraph—Press Association,
Rotorua, Thursday. Tewkesbury Benyon was drowned in Lake Rotorua yesterday afternoon is the result of a boat accident. Deceased, ■who iwas a patient in the sanatorium, in company with three others, two of whom were also patients at the sanatorium, went for a sail and when the boat was close to Mokoia Island a gust of wind caught her and capsized her. The four occupants clung to the boit for an hour and a-half. Deceased then attempted to 6wim to the island, about thro hundred yards distant, but Bank when sixty yards from the boat. His body was recovered by a Maori. Deceased was 29 years of'age and a resident of Auckland. His father at one time was editor of the Kumara Times.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 249, 26 November 1909, Page 2
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130BOATING FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 249, 26 November 1909, Page 2
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