NEARLY DROWNED.
| BUT DOES NOT KNOW IT. MAX WITH FAILING MEMORY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON", Wednesday. A man fishing from the rocks to the west of Island Bay was astonished last week to see a man's body floating near the shore. He lost no time in bringing it ashore, and, finding the man still breathed faintly, he summoned help and the man was conveyed to the Wellington Hospital, where he is now doing as well as can be expected. Inquiries disclosed that the rescued man, who is nearly 70 years of age, had a habit of wandering, and his memory was unreliable. When asked how he got into the sea at Cook Strait he .denied he had ever been in the sea.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 6
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