YOUTH DROWNED IN RIVER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
. February. 6. While swimming •in the Waikato River, near the traffic bridge at Hamilton, late this afternoon, a youth about 20 years of age, Leslie John Lovegrove, of Grey Street, Hamilton East, got into difficulties and was drowned.
A young man, Francis Cassidy, who noticed the deceased's plight, swam out to him and held him up, but he subsequently lost his hold, the deceased disappearing. /
The body was recovered -an hour later by_. the-police.; -
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 5
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