Man Believed Drowned

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 6

Man Believed Drowned

Missing since 6 p.m. on Friday, when he left his home in a small dinghy, a resident of South Cove, Kawau Island, is believed to have been drowned. He is Francis Owen Nops, [aged 37, a farmer, married, with two children. Mr Nops left the southern side of South Cove on his daily trip of about two miles to collect the mail. When he did not arrive a search was begun. The dinghy and one oar were found washed up on the shore of the south harbour at Kawau oh Saturday afternoon. Child Killed A Maori child, aged two years and a half was run over and killed by a truck which was being backed at the Morea station, on the Hastings-Els-thorpe road yesterday afternoon. He was Renata Pere, a son of Mr Leo Walker Pere, a farm labourer. The truck had brought a load of shearing gear to the Morea station and had stopped at Mr Pere’s residence. Some time later it was decided to shift the truck, and Morehu Hadfield aged 17, moved the vehicle about 10 feet. On alighting, he found the child had been run over by a rear wheel, and; was dead.— (P.A.) )