DROWNING FATALITY
TWO YOUNG MEN DROWNED. (By Telegraph—Press Associate) BLENHEIM, Last Night. Further details regarding the Wairau bar drawing fatality state that a fall of cement at Messrs Dalgety and Co.'s new store cut 'the telephone wires, which was the reason no details were available before. The victims were William Aldridge, aged 27, and Edward Collett, aged 25. The men were cousins, and were unmarried. They were engaged in the flsliing trade. They left in a motor launch for Port Underwood on Monday, and on returning yesterday attempted to negotiate the Wairau bar. The sea was not extraordinarily rough, but an unusually powerful roller struck the launch at a critical moment, and capsized her. The harbourmaster and his assistant went across to the open beach, but saw no sign of the missing men. It is impossible to traverse the bar in an open boat. The harbourmaster communicated with the steamer Wairau, and the Captain sent out a lifeboat, but the search was unsuccessful. The body of Aldridge was picked ip on the beach near the bar at 5.30 p.m., and Collett's at the same place early this morning. The launch was smashed to pieces.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10686, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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194DROWNING FATALITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10686, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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