BATHING FATALITY
YOUTHFUL SWIMMER DROWNED
Br Tblegkavh.—Press Association
Te Awamutu, January 21,
Victor John Hall, aged 16, sou of G, W. Hall, ot Te Awamutu, was drowned this afternoon in the Mangapiko stream. A party of eight boys went swimming, and after a quarter of an hour in the water deceased was observed by one of his companions to put liis head down as though attempting to swim with his head below the surface. Before the danger was realised he disappeared. One boy dived immediately, but without lesult, and though a search was maintained all the afternoon, the body had not yet been recovered. The site ot the fatality is a deep hole at the junction of two streams. It is full of sunken logs, and is a treacherous place.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 8
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130BATHING FATALITY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 8
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