FISHERMAN MISSING.
LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.
CLOTHES FOUND ON BEACH.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] GISBORNE, Thursday;
A young man, Richard Anstruther Burson, has been missing since Tuesday evening, and it is beleived that -he has been drowned. His clothes and -a hurricane lamp were fqund on the beach.
Burson had been in ' the* habit when fishing of removing his clothes and going out into the suif with a line. It ia feared that the heavy seas on Tuesday evening overwhelmed him. He cama from Australia and had no relatives in this country. He was 25 years of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20903, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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