THE IRONY OF FATE.
DREDGE MASTER DROWNED IN
RIVER,
AFTER A CAREER AT SEA
Press Association.
DUNEDIN, Nov. 26. Captain McLay, master of the Hartley and Riley dredge, and one of the oldest dredge masters in Otago, was drowned at Cromwell this afternon. He was going ashore to take his shift on board when a rope holding the traveller broke, and the boat was capsized or was swamped. Ho swam for some distance, but could not get ashore. Deceased was 68 years of ago, and followed the sea till 1861, when he settled in Central Otago.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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96THE IRONY OF FATE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 3
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