DEATH PRESUMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 224, 22 September 1938, Page 4

DEATH PRESUMED.

I MISSING FARMER. fNQUEST WITHOUT THE BODY. ACCIDENTAL BROWNIHO. •' Authority having been jriven -.'• Attorney-General under Section; 3 rf- ' the Coroner's Amendment Act. 1980 tfc city coroner. Mr. F. R. Hunt, d held an inquest into fi.e circumstance* g of the disappearance of Wallace Edwird >- Farley, aged 23. of Whatipu. farnw, y Farley, a single man. resided with W. 11 parents at Whatipu. II Evidence was given that just before ? 7 o'clock on the evening of March jl • Farley left home to gn fishing from tie ( _ Whatipu wharf. He did not retnra , s and next rlay his fisliin? tackle wia ,'. found on the wharf. The opinion »« t s formed that Farley's line had fooled. a and that, in attempting to free it, V 0 had slipped and fallen into the water n It was also considered he had injured f ] himself because hp was a fairly «qJ swimmer. He had always been of a n cheerful disposition, and had made arrangements to go to Auckland ike following day to get a motor irack. v Constable F. Pollard stated that a - search had been made up to September o 22. but the body had not been' recovered. e "11 the date deceased was found to be - missing a heavy sea was running out i> over the bar. He did not think the t body would now be recovered. The coroner found that Farlev had it met his death by accidental drowning.