ARAMOHO BRIDGE FATALITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXX, Issue LXXX, 14 February 1920, Page 4

ARAMOHO BRIDGE FATALITY.

WANGANUI. Feb. 13. It transpires, in connection with th©drowning accident, that Mr T. Ramsbottom, stationmaster at Acamoho, who witnessed the occurrence, made a./ plucky attempt to tescue the woman. ■ He divested himself of kuDerfln«us^i \ clothing, swan out to I;he middle of th&river, but the woman, whom he saw--struggling, had disappeared, and onlyher hat was found. Mi* Ramsbotton* j'was seized with cramp, and called forj assistance, _ a woman and a boy in a i boat reaching him just in time.

CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 13. Charles R. Hayfield, a returned 6oldier, a married man, died under an anaesthetic at Chalmers Military Hospital this afternoon whilst *■ undergoing a minor ouerationl ",«.' - ;: