BODY FOUND IN RIVER.
BICYCLE TOUR INTENDED. (By Telegraph.--Press Association.) FOX TON, this day. The body of a young man, subsequently identified as that of Stanley Wright, aged 39 years, was found floating "in the Manawatu River near the heads this morning. He was last seen alive on Thursday last. A letter on tlie body, addressed to the young man's mother, Mrs. Crosbie, of Fox ton, stated that he intended leaving on a trip round the world on a bike. Bicycle clips were found in .he trousers. The body was fully clothed, and there was nothing to indicate how deceased got into the water.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 286, 2 December 1936, Page 5
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