TRAGEDY FEARED
CAR WASHED INTO STREAM
PASSENGER MISSING
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) THAMES, This Day. A mining foreman of New Guinea, Mr. Frederick Woods, aged 59, is reported missing after a car in which he was a passenger was washed off the Coroglen Ford, on the Mercury BayThames Road, early yesterday afternoon. Following heavy rains the night before a considerable amount of water was running over the ford, and the J car was washed off the concrete apron into the stream. It was carried downstream and washed into a deep hole. The driver was a man named Gruemfield, veterinary surgeon, of Hamilton, and the passengers were Mrs. V. Woods and Miss I. Woods, wife and daughter respectively of the missing man.
When Miss Woods was recovered from the water artificial respiration was necessary before she was revived. Mrs. and Miss Woods live in Hamilton.
A search party, organised by Constable Rose, Mercury Bay, is looking for Mr. Woods.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 15
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