PLUNGE INTO RIVER
CAR AND DRIVER MISSING SEARCH IN DEEP WATER (P. A.) WANG AXUI, Snnday A motor-car with its driver, believed to be .Mr Robert W. Orton, a wellknown farmer, of Wanganui. plunged into the Wanganui River about seven miles from the city on Saturday afternoon.' So far neither the vehicle nor its occupant has been 1 located in the water, which is at least 20ft deep at low tide.
It is not- known at what time the accident occurred. Mr Orton was last seen at the Makirikiri store shortiv after one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the storekeeper seeing the car drive away along the road in -the direction of Mr Orton's farm, ■which is about a mile and a-half away. When Mr Orton was missed a search ■was begun and indications were found that a vehicle had left the road and plunged over a steep bank through undergrowth to the river. A Harbour Board launch and one of the river steamers aided in the police search today, but it is thought a_ diver will be necessary before the driver can be located.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24971, 14 August 1944, Page 2
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