DROWNING FATALITIES.
AT WAIRARAPA LAKE. TWO LIVES XOST. <By. Telegraph—Press . Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The opening of the shooting season, to-day, was marked, by a distressing accident on Lake Wairarapa, resulting in the loss of two lives. 1 The details are meagre, but so far as is ascertainable, it appears that a party of four, G. Pepperill, aged sixty, his son, a nephew, and a friend (a man about 50 of age) went out in a small boat to shoot ducks. ' The weight of the four men, with their guns:, ammunition, etc., proved too heavy for the fradi craft, which sank near the mouth of the Tauherenikau River. The elder Pepperill, and one other man, whether the nephew or friend, neither of whose names is available, and was not' known this evening, were drowned. The «nly thing certain is that the younger Pepperill is one of those saved. Lawrie Donald, of Featherston, who was shooting near the spot, went to the on seeing the boat party in ■ difficulties," and eaved the two men. G. Pepperill leaves a widow, who is an invalid, and has a large family in Featherston.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10227, 2 May 1911, Page 5
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189DROWNING FATALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10227, 2 May 1911, Page 5
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