DROWNING TRAGEDY.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 30. Thrown into the water when their dinghy capsized off the mouth of the Tarnwera River this morning, one mail was drowned and another reached the shore only after a struggle through heavy surf. The man drowned was William David Parsons, aged 32, married, with no children, of Alatata. The' body of Air Parsons was later washed ashore about 1J miles from tho point where the accident occurred. The other man was Air Edward aged about 30, unmarried and a recent arrival from England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 11
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91DROWNING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 11
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