DROWNED WHILE BATHING.
ANOTHER RIVER TATAI,!^ IX KING COUNTRY STREAM. (By Telegraph.-Press Association.) TE AWAMUTU, Thursday. A boy aged 16 years. Victor John Han a son of -Mr. G. \V. Hall, of T e Awamutu. was drowned tliU afternoon huh' tho Mangapiko Stream. ' °
A party of eight buys went B\Vimmi n(T and after being: a quarter of an hour in the water the deceased was observed by a companion to put his head down as though attempting to swim with his head below the surface, before the dan. ger was realised he had disappeared One boy dived immediately without result. Although a search was maintained all the afternoon the body waa not recovered.
The site of the fatality is a deep hole at the junction of two streams. -It i s full of sunken logs, and is a treacherous' plav-c.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1926, Page 8
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