BATHING TRAGEDY
DROWNED IN CROWDED POOL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HA WEB A, This Day. The body of William John Turner Nicholson, aged 30, who disappeared in a crowded swimming pool of tho river near the Ohawe beach yesterday, was found, about 7 o'clock this .morning.; The deceased's son, aged six years, who went with him to tho pool yesterday afternoon, told other bathers after some time that 'his father had disappeared. Divers searched the pool unsuccessfully. The police, who were notified after several hours, later commenced, a search in the dark, arid resumed dragging at daybreak. A diver located Hie body in ten feet of water. The late. Mr. Nicholspn, a dairy company's employee, leaves a wife and two children.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 10
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120BATHING TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1931, Page 10
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