FOUND DROWNED.
* MAN’S BODY FOUND IN WAINGONGORO.
Percy Coffey, the well-known horse trainer, who resided at Normanbv, was reported missing on Wednesday evening. It appears that he rode away on a horse, wearing his working clothes, but failing to return the matter was reported to the police. Yesterday the horse was found near the power house. A search was made last night, but without result. This morning Constable Pidgeon and party renewed their search, and the body was found in the lake on the Waingongoro which supplies the power house. Deceased leaves a wife and two children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 June 1924, Page 7
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97FOUND DROWNED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 June 1924, Page 7
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