DEATHS BY DROWNING.
BOY SWEPT OFF ROCK. By Telegraph.—Press Association Dargaville, Nov. 27. A lad named Bassett aged 15, and two married men named Powell and 'Donaldson, went for a day’s fishing at the . Mongonui Bluff yesterday. While fishing a ‘big wave washed all three off the rock, but the men managed to clamber back and clung to the rock, but the boy was carried out seaward. The men hung on tenaciously and cried" lustily for help, and a man named Dempster, luckily passing, heard the cries and took the ro-pes from the horses used by the fishermen to ride to the beach, lowered the line over the cliff and succeeded in drawing them to .safety. Settlers searched for the lad all day, but found on trace. The ■spot whore the accident occulted is particularly dangerous. This is the third or fourth death there. FATAL YACHT ACCIDENT. Wellington, Nov. 27. A yacht upset yesterday afternoon in the upper part of the harbor and the five occupants were left struggling in the boisterous sea for three-quarters of an hour before help arrived. Percy Wilson, aged 19, apprentice at the Government Printing Office. was drowned and the two others were only restored with difficulty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1922, Page 5
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202DEATHS BY DROWNING. Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1922, Page 5
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