FATAL FALL OFF BRIDGE.
AN EX-SOLDIER ' DROWNED. [BX TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ; ASSOCIATION.]. '■':.' ■; -?CHKISTCHURCH. Tuesday. Mr. 'Arthur Alexander 'Perkins,,, a single man, aged i ; 34, formerly a■: captain in the Expeditionary Force, was; drowned last night -in the v- L Wainiakariri, ■ • near Stewart's Gully, ■'• Kaiapoi.i: Mr. Perkins, who - belongs to Christ church,;; was ; spendthe 'fishing .season, in. Stewart's Gully. While walking in single v file acrossW ; the railway bridge with; two companions : 'i he evidently slipped on the wet planking and disappeared. The ■'~ night was wet and boisterous, and no ;■-.success attended the efforts of .; Mr. v Perkins* companions .to rescue him. The body has; not ; been irecovered. .>?';■■■ : V-'.-'"- ;: ;H't; -^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18532, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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