WOMAN DROWNED.
IN DEEP BATHING POOL SEEN BY A NON-SWIMMER. BODY RECOVERED TOO LATE. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") HAWERA, this day. Francis Caroline Lumsden. aged 41. of Feilding, an unmarried woman, was drowned in the deep bathing pool of the Waingorogoro River at Oliaw/i, about ">.30 o'clock last evening. Attempts were made by a non-swim-mer to rescue the woman by throwing to her a log of wood, which she grasped for some minutes. He ran for assistance and Messrs. K. Duckworth and A. K. Fyson hurried from the beach about 400 yards away, only, to find the woman apparently dead. They recovered the
body, and Dr. McGhie and Constable Mullins arrived, but artificial respiration fail-d. The woman, who was fully clothed, had been seen by the non-swimmer walking along the bank of the river at'out 5.20 p.m. He later saw her in difficulties in the hole.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 56, 7 March 1929, Page 10
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