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FORMERLY BELIEVED DROWNED YOUTH, DISCOVERED ON ISLAND. - ■ f- — v- ■ iPer Press Assooiation.^-Oopyrlght.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day, A Lyttelton youth, aged 17 years, David Skoeche Wilson, who had been missing since Monday, and was believed to have been drowned, was found yesterday afternoon on Quail Island, the former quarantine and lep-' er station, near the head of * the harbour. , Wilson landed on the island on Monday night and placed his clothes in a dinghy, . which was either set adrift or carried out by the tide. He had taken possession of a house in the temporary absence of the lessee of the island, and was found by the police hiding in a cupboard. Tha boy, who appeared to be suffering ‘from hallucinations, was removed to the Christchurch Hospital.
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1933, Page 11
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