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Youth Thought Drowned (N.Z. Press Association) PALMERSTON NORTH. September 14. A 19-year-old Foxton youth, Leo Bryden Hutton, of Hulke street, was presumed to have been drowned in a boating accident at the mouth of the Manawatu river at about 9.15 a.m. today. He and Mervyn Charles Smith, aged 17, of Foxton Beach, were trawling from a boat when the net snagged. In attempting to free the net, the two youths overturned the boat Smith swam to shore but Hutton, who could not swim, was lost to his sight Constables J. R. Greenstreet and W. Fearsey, of Foxton, spent all day searching for the missing youth, but found no trace.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29928, 15 September 1962, Page 12
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