CAUGHT BY THE SEA
CARTER DROWNED AT OHIRO BAY THREE HORSES ALSO LOST (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Caught in the incoming surf while carting shingle on the beach at Ohiro Bay, Wellington, yesterday, Harry Perrett, a married man, aged 68, was swept into the sea and drowned. His companion, a boy, managed to escape by climbing on to some rocks. The point at which the accident occurred is passable only at low tide. Mr Perrett had been carting metal from the place with a three-horse dray, and he was about drive out' with the last load, when a heavy sea swept up the beach toward the cliff under which he was working, overturned the dray and swept it out to sea. Mr Perrett was drowned, as were the three horses. The body has' been recovered. Mr Perrett leaves a widow and a grown-up family of two sons and one daughter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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152CAUGHT BY THE SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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