BELIEVED DROWNED
Fisherman Missing
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Aug. 28.
A Devonport man is believed to have drowned while fishing from a small dinghy at Kawakawa Bay, 37 miles from Auckland, on Saturday afternoon. He was:
Alva Hilton Hunter, aged 70, a carpenter, of 11 Rattray street, Devonport.
The police said Mr Hunter was believed to have fallen overboard from his dinghy while fishing alone about a mile from shore.
His partly waterlogged dinghy was found at anchor. His fishing rod was missing.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31150, 29 August 1966, Page 1
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