DROWNING ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN IN TROUBLE. BOAT UPSET IN BREAKERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Last Night A sensational accident occurred on the Waikanae beach at seven o-lock last night, as the result of which a married man, .Ronald Mclnnes, fifty-one years of age, was drowned. The deceased, with another man, Leonard Burne, went fishine in a flat bottom boat, and it 'drifted within a' hundred yards of the beach and then cap--Bi7.cd in the breakers. Both men started to swim ashore and then turned back. They attempted to right the boat, but this failed, and they started again for the shore.
Mclnnes called for assistance and Burne attempted to so back, but he was washed away by a breaker. Burne got near land exhausted and was pulled ashore. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Warren and Mr. Ralph Morse swam through tho breakers to rescue Mclnnes. who was brought ashore in a collapsed state. Artificial respiration was tried for half an hour but without result.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1920, Page 5
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163DROWNING ACCIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1920, Page 5
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