IMMIGRANT DROWNED
DISAPPEARANCE OF A CHILD. •I : . FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. TE AWAMUTU, May 29. Alfred Calfe, aged 19 years, an immigrant who arrived here on Anzao Day, was drowned in the Punui river on Sunday. A party of three was out shooting, and deceased attempted to cross'the river on willow branches, but fell into fifteen feet oi Water and did not come to the surface again. The police are dragging the river to-day. Also in a tributary of the same river yesterday, at IGopua, a two-year-old child, named William Hughes, is believed to have been drowned. The child disappeared in the direction of the stream, and has net been seen ■since.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11222, 30 May 1922, Page 5
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