MAORI DROWNED
4 , Dominion Special Service. Auckland, November 23. At Helensviile, yesterday, soon after 7 p.m., a Maori was drowned in the river, after leaping from the wharf. He hud been sitting on the wharf for some time, and a constable approached him, with a view to establishing his identity. As soon as the constable got near, the Maori leaped off the wharf, and started to swim across the river. The- constable quickly obtained a boat, and set off in pursuit of the swimmer, but before he could get near, the Maori sank out of sight. It is surmised that the Maori caught his clothes on a snag in the river, and was pulled down into the current. Some days ago, it was reported that an elderly Maori had wandered away from tlie Avondale Mental Hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 12
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136MAORI DROWNED Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 12
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