Drowning Feared
[Special to “Northern Advocate’ M WELLINGTON, This Day. Blown out to sea yesterday afternoon in a dinghy when he left Mr E. L. Riddiford’s Tora station, near Martinbcrough, to go fishing, a young employee on the station is believed to have lost his life. The youth’s name is Russell Wallace, aged 18. An Air Force machine searching for the dinghy sighted it about five miles off the coast, and it appeared to contain only one oar and a sack or coat. A westerly wind was blowing, and the water was choppy offshore. Mr Clement Wilson, manager of the station. said that the young man was a good swimmer, and, apparently finding the boat drifting out to sea, had attempted to swim for the shore.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 7
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