SWEPT TO DEATH
HUKA PALLS TKAGEDY MAN SLIPS INTO TORRENT POWERLESS IN RACING WATERS SEARCH FOR BODY FRUITLESS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TAUPO, Sunday Falling into the river about 200 yards above the Huka Falls yesterday morni?ig, Mr. Arthur R. B. Hodgson, aged 27, was drowned. Apparently he slipix;d off a mossy ledge of rock while trying to fill a petrol tin with water for the radiator of his car, and in the racing waters was powerless to save himself. Mr. Hodgson and three others were employed on the hydro-electric scheme for Limited, and at the time of the accident they wore about to leave for Rotor ua, where Mr. Hodgson lived with his wife and two children. When Mr. Hodgson loft the, car to get water he was fully clothed and worp a heavy leather coat, which must have impeded his efforts to get ashore. The last person to see him was the foreman of works, Mr. W. Cunningham, who was on the swing bridge above the falls arid saw Mr. Hodgson swept downstream.
A party of volunteers searched th'~> river all day for Mr. Hodgson's body, but without success. The river will bo patrolled daily until the body is recovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22475, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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