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« Reply #25 on: April 03, 2009, 03:07:10 pm »


Whitebaiting season claims third West Coast fatality

By SANDRA Cox in WESTPORT - The Press | Saturday, 29 September 2007

HEART PROBLEMS: Police recover a whitebaiter's body from the Grey River yesterday. The death was the third whitebait-related death on the West Coast this season. CHARLES BRUNING/The Press.

HEART PROBLEMS: Police recover a whitebaiter's body from the
Grey River yesterday. The death was the third whitebait-related
death on the West Coast this season.
— CHARLES BRUNING/The Press


A Westport whitebaiter died of a suspected heart attack early yesterday morning, the third whitebaiter to die this season on the West Coast.

Constable Chris Robertson, of the Westport police, said the 74-year-old man, who had heart problems, died on the banks of Martins Island, near the mouth of the Buller River.

A friend with a cellphone called emergency services, while others tried to revive him.

St John Ambulance Westport team manager Ian Rodger said the man was dead when the emergency services arrived.

He had been whitebaiting with three friends when he collapsed.

Police would not release the man's name until family in Australia had been notified. He was believed to have been a former employee of the cement works near Westport.

On September 06, 80-year-old Keith Vickery Hollobon, of Shirley, in Christchurch, was killed when the van in which he was a passenger left the road at Bruce Bay, 40km south of Fox Glacier, on State Highway 6, and collided with a tree. Hollobon and the 79-year-old driver had been returning to Christchurch from whitebaiting in Westland.

That afternoon, long-time Greymouth whitebaiter Peter (P. J.) Awatere fell into the Grey River and died of a suspected heart attack.


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