MAN FOUND DEAD IN RIVER
(New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, October 20. A man who for the last 25 years had lived alone in a oneroom hut on the banks of the Te Ngawai river near the TimaruFairlie highway, five miles east of Cave, was found dead in the river about a chain from his hut on Saturday morning. He was Mr William Walker, aged 79. It is thought that Mr Walker, who had failing sight, slipped down a bank near his hut and was swept by the current into deep water.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 10
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