YOUNG WOMAN KILLED
FALL FROM CLIFF. Bor Press Association. ' TAURANGA, January 5. A distressing fatality occurred at Mount Maunganui, the Tauranga watering-place, yesterday afternoon. Two young ladies and a young man pulled out in a dinghy to Rabbit Island, a short distance from the beach, and tried to climb a precipitous cliff. Miss Winifred Halcombe, aged seventeen, fell a considerable distance to the rocks, and was killed. The cries of her companion, Miss Lysaght, were heard by a launch party fishing in the vicinity, and ehe was rescued by means of ropes. They also recovered Miss Halcorahe’s body. An inquest is being held to-day. The town of Halcombe was named after the deceased’s late grandfather.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11411, 6 January 1923, Page 4
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