DROWNED WHILE BATHING.
t A HAKARU SETTLERI
PROBABLY SEIZED WITH CRAMP,
AUCKLAND, April 10
A man named Arthur Ryan, a Hakaru settler, was drowned while bathing at Luke's Beach, Tamaki River, Otahuhu, yesterday afternoon.
Ryan, who was about 50 years of age, was staying with' his wife at the residence of Dr. Rowley, his brother-in-law. At three o'clock in the afternoon he set out for a bathe, but as he did not return when expected his relatives became anxious, and instituted a search.
They discovered his clothes in the bathing hut at seven o'clock in the evening, and the facts were reported to the police.
After a further search Ryan's body was found two hours later on the beach. Deceased was known to be a good swimmer, and it is surmised that his death resulted through cramp.
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Northern Advocate, 10 April 1911, Page 5
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