ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
YOUTH BELIEVED DROWNED. A farm worker, John Gordon Vicker,aged 17, is believed to have been drowned in a flooded stream near" Rananui in the Raetihi district. Ha' was reported missing on Saturday.: Vicker left on horseback'on Friday to visit a friend’s place three and a-hal£ miles away, and at Tongahoe he had to ford a stream which was flooded. Tha police searched the locality and found the missing youth’s horse on a ledge below a waterfall, 50ft high.Vicker’s saddle, overcoat, and trousers were found in deep water, but there was no sign of the youth or of the sis dogs he had with him.
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Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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107ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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