RIVER FATALITY.
A AfOUNG MAN DROAVNED.
Shortly before, 5 o’clock Inst evening Sergeant Hutton received a telegram from Mr AA\ Sutherland, settler, Tiniroto, stating that just before o’clock his son and a young man named Cecil Benson were bathing in the AVaipaoa river, and as there was a 'fresh running, Benson got out of his depth, went under and. was drowned. The telegram stated that the body had not been recovered. Sergeant Hutton at once despatched Constable Dandy to Tiniroto, and he will reach there this morning. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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87RIVER FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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