Youth Believed Drowned on Beach
WELLINGTON, Feb. 21. A 19-year-old Post and Telegraph Department employee,, William Ross Wells, whose home is in Christchurch, is believed to have , been drowned in high seas at Titahi Bay yesterday afternoon. With two companions, lan Park and Donald Wilson, he was carried by an under-current into the danger area. Wilson succeeded in scrambling ashore and returned with a life saving reel. He managed to get Park out of the water, but Wells was too far out. . , , A member of the life-saving club. Norman Bowers, unsuccessfully tried to rescue wells, who, when last seen was drifting rapidly. No trace of Wells has been reported by police searchers.
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Grey River Argus, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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