BOY DROWNED IN RIVER
OVERTURNING OF A SLEDGE RESCUE EFFORTS BY BROTHER • [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYAIOUTH Thursday The overturning of a sledge on which he was attempting to cross the flooded Kapuni River, South Taranaki, resulted in the drowning of Gordon Prestidge, aged 15 years. The boy's elder brother, Leonard Prestidge, aged 24, who was also on the sledge, was thrown into the water, but succeeded in reaching the shore. Seeing his brother floating down stream on the branch of a tree he ran to .a swing bridge, from-off which he dived into the water in an effort to save the boy. The swift current, however, carried the boy past him, and when he regained the shore he was in an exhausted condition. The body of Gordon Prestidge was later recovered half a mile from the scene of the accident.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21881, 17 August 1934, Page 10
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