YOUTH DROWNED.
WiuLE crossing creek.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The drowning of a youth, at Red Rocks, near Sinclair Head, near Wellington, was reported to the police this afternoon. Two men delivered a message to the Brooklyn police station that a man, who was accompanied by two friends, had been drowned while attempting" to cross the creek at Red Rocks. A further message wag received that the victim, who was aged 19, was a member of a camping party. His n4me could not be ascertained. The youth was carried away by the 6ea while trying to cross the stream at 1.45 p.m. The place where the drowning occurred cannot be reached by car and is accessible by foot or horseback only at certain states of the tide.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 10
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