PENSIONER’S BODY FOUND IN RIVER
(P.A.) BLENHEIM, Aug. 22. Following the discovery of his horse and a gig a short distance up the river from Waihopai the body of a man was iecovered from the Walrau River .yesterday afternoon. He was: Mr. Thomas Long, pensioner, aged 75. On Thursday Mr. Long took the gig across a ford in the Wairau River, but did not ; eturn home. His absence did not cause alarm immediately as he w’as in the habit of spending several days away from his bach on the Langley Dale property.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23339, 23 August 1950, Page 3
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92PENSIONER’S BODY FOUND IN RIVER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23339, 23 August 1950, Page 3
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