FARMER DROWNED
-♦ SHIFTING LAUNCH IN GALE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. After a four-hour struggle to shift a launch to safety in a north-west gale on Saturday night, Mr John Cliriton Maling Greensill, aged 67, a single man, of Ohingaroa, arid a well-known Pelorus Sound sheepfarmer, disappeared overboard in a short absence of his companion. His body was subsequently found on the beach. Mr Greensill, accompanied by an employee named Meikle, went out in a rowboat to move the launch, which'was threatened by the gale, to a sheltered mooring. By midnight they had succeeded in their object, and Meikle went ashore for a crowbar to make a new mooring. He returned to discover Mr Greensill missing, and located the body three-quarters of an hour later. A verdict of accidental drowning was returned at an inquest.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1938, Page 9
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