VERDICT AT INQUEST.
WAIAU -RIVER FATALITY. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 30. The inquest into the death of Mrs Rose Boyle was resumed this morning, when her husband, Mr A. P. Boyle, stock agent, gave evidence that since the birth of a child four months ago deceased had been suffering from insomnia and had later been in a rest house in Cashmere, where she was pronounced cured, but on the advice of a doctor witness took her to Hamner, where she was perfectly normal. Witness had no cause for anxiety. On Thursday, November 23, they were bathing with others at Marble Point in the Waiau River. Witness and deceased bathed there next day. After a bathe she walked away and he did not see her again. It was possible that she had slipped on a rock and fallen into the stream. The Coroner, Mr H. P. Lawry, returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 1 December 1933, Page 2
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