ACCIDENTS
■' : /. ; , /C I DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND 7 (Per Press Association— Copyright). WANGANUI, May 2. • The body of a male native, tlidught ’•. to be that of Maketu Wereta.,- aged 38, who had been missing since an .upturned 1 ' boat was discovered off the mouth of the Waitatara ■ River on April 6, was found on the beach-near Waverly by' two young men i ■ out shooting on Tuesday afternoon.-- .Th® body , was in an advanced sflate? of- 'decomposition, and indentifleation wfli be difficult. An inquest will be heldWcreta and two companions wgnt on a fishing trip on April 5, and the following day their overturned vessel .was found. The other two bodies have pot been recovered. •’ FATAL FALL FROM BOCYCLE ASHBURTON, May 2.- : John l Mabl.v, aged eleven,- died-/ at the hospital of internal injuries, resulting from a fall off a bicycle . at Mayfield on Thursday.- Mabley was sitting on the bar of_a bicycle ridden by another boy, who -fell on him. • >
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1934, Page 4
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