DROWNING FEARED
YOUTH'S HORSE FOUND STRANDED BELOW WATERFALL [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI, Monday A farm worker, John Gordon Vicker, aged 17, is believed to have been drowned in a flooded stream near Rananui, in the Raetihi district. He was reported missing on Saturday, having left on horseback on Friday to visit a friend's place three and a-lialf miles away. At Tongahoe he had to ford a stream which was flooded. The police searched the locality and found Vicker's horse stranded on a lodge below a waterfall 50ft. high. Vicker's saddle, overcoat and trousers were found in deep water, but there was no sign of the youth or the six dogs he had with him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24083, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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115DROWNING FEARED New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24083, 30 September 1941, Page 6
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