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(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) "\ . ELTHAM, This Day. ± ather Maurice Fitzgibbons, about 33 years of age, mysteriously disappearecl early on Sunday evening after, attending a. service. He had leeentiyianivodS from Levin to assist the parish, and' had been an inmate of., the Lewiahain' Hospital at Christchurch for the. las* six months, and as the result of operai tions he had undergone was oa the cdi?* of a nervous breahdovm. He came to join Father Moore at Eltham ia tlr3 hopes that a change for some months' would do good. Parties had been searching all da^ yesterday and to-day and the body ofi the missing man was found this after* noon in a deep hole in the Waingongord Kiver. The hat of the misaing man hac| been found a mile further np the rivesj At the inquest the jury found thaf the decased met his death by drowning") obviously due to accidentally falling over a high cliff into the river, aewf. the end of George street. '•
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1927, Page 11
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166PRIEST FOUND DROWNED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1927, Page 11
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