BOAT CAPSIZES
MAN DROWNED IN RIVER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
. DUNEDIN, October 26.
When a small flat-bottomed boat capsized in the Waipori River on Saturday afternoon, its three occupants were thrown into a deep hole which had been dredged for gravel and Cuthbert Earl McKeag, of George Street, Dunedin, married, aged 34, was drowned. The body was recovered later. Mr McKeag, together with A. J. Bracegirdle and J. J. Pledger, both of whom reside in Wilkie Road, Dunedin, went on a shooting expedition and seeing a small boat went out in it on the Waipori River. It capsized over deep water and Mr McKeag was unable to reach the bank. The other two men succeeded in doing so.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1941, Page 7
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