Immigrant Drowns In Boating Mishap
fA'ew Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, December 16. Only five months after achieving freedom and a new life in New Zealand, a White Russian immigrant was drowned yesterday in a boating accident near Lake Te Anau.
Nikolai Rodinov, aged 27, of Invercargill. He was the elder son of a family brought to Invercargill in July by St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and was returning home after working for a month with a party of English deer cullers in Fiordland when the accident occurred in the Brebe river. A police party which left Te Anau yesterday afternoon to recover the body had not returned early this afternoon. The discoloured condition of the river made their search for the body difficult. Rodinov had been expected to return to Invercargill to celebrate his birthday last Saturday with his parents and younger brother. Although able to speak only a few words of English on their arrival, the family had settled in well. Both Nikolai and his 24-year-old brother, Ivan, had attended night
classes and could speak the language fluently. The brothers had worked together as electrical linesmen before Nikolai took the Fiordland job.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30626, 17 December 1964, Page 22
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