DROWNED AT RIVER CROSSING.
CLERGYMAN AND SISTER,
HOKITIKA, Feb. 14
The Rev. Locke, vicar of Ross, and his sister, Miss Locke, were drowned in the Wanganui River yesterday. They declined the offer of the ferry: ap.n to take them across, thinking that the river crossing was safe.
When half v ay across the trap capsized, and the occupants were swept down stream. The bodies have not yet been recovered. The Lockes.were only recent arrivals from Cornwall, aud were highly esteemed locally.
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Northern Advocate, 14 February 1912, Page 5
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