BATHER IN DIFFICULTIES
A TRAGIC SEQUEL WOULD-BE RESCUER DROWNED By Telegraph-—Press Association Te Awamutu, March 23. A drowning fatality is reported from Tc Kawa, eight miles south of Te Awamutu. It appears that a number of bathers yestcrclay afternoon assembled at . a favoured bathing place in the Waipa River. After most of the party had returned homewards two young women named Neal were having a final swim, when one got into difficulties, due to the stiff current. The other sister rushed to the rescue, and got her safely to the far bank. Looking round Miss Neal could see nothing of her mother, who had been sitting on the bank, and the. mother’s hat was seen floating in the stream. An alarm was given, and a search made, but no trace could be found. It is assumed that she plunged into the water when the elder daughter was in difficulties, and was drowned. Dragging operations are in progress, but the latest advice is that the bodv had not been recovered.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 6
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169BATHER IN DIFFICULTIES Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 24 March 1925, Page 6
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