PUHA TRAGEDY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10753, 26 November 1928, Page 4

PUHA TRAGEDY

LAD’S body fovw m

ahssing for A ;

Ttnrlier fears that -a tragedy had ocLarlier rem•» the previous Suncurred at Puna yesterday after day were confirmed J fl-^erjear&ML noon when the 7 ik er -- was - found youth, Stcwarb A\a Waipaoa. caught in a the ..point river, ‘ Jammed he attempted S? nver' to * round up soifie. straying cow aj ._ . T H e • ""Nc^SSanß’.frsm Ireland onlyXut 11 weeks prior to the tra- ? iearch party wont otifi and discov a iiL -nd dogs -on the far sfde of the Waipaoa river, close to a crossing which was notoriously canfirms when' the stream was at all swollen as it then was. It was also discovered that several cows hau Sr-ived. from the mam herd and •. it ?as that, in rounding these nn the lad found crossing the rxvi.r neccssarv. Search parties had since E out constantly searching for signs of the youth, hut it was only yesterday, about 3 mm., that Constable Greggan, at le Jvaraxa, received word of the discovery as Fated. The body was brought m.o Gi_ borne last evening. ndDeepest sympathy will be ed to an elder brother arid si.ter.. both of whom reside at L ulm and to the mother, who is m ireland in their extremely sad btcw t Walker, though only 16 .vears oW, was a splendid type of young manhood. being about six ieet m hmgmt. and in his short sojourn m the dominion, he had shown himself a very willing worker with a cheerful temperament which brought- him many fn Se S funeraJ will leave Haisman’s private mortuary, Wi Pere. street, at 10 45 this morning for Taruher 1 cemetery. " ‘ • ■