Prospector’s Body Found In River
[Per Press Association. Copyright .] HOKITIKA, This Day.
The body of Mr Christopher Pope, aged 30, a prospector, who left Bruce Bay on November 5 to walk to Jackson’s Bay, accompanied by a young woman, Miss Kathleen Murphy, was found at the mouth of the Paringa River yesterday. He had apparently been drowned. Nothing is known of the whereabouts of the young woman, and it is feared that she has met a similar fate. An inquest will be held at Bruce Bay.
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Northern Advocate, 2 December 1939, Page 4
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