A FATAL FALL
YOUNG WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH. (Pee United Press Association.) TAURANGA, January 5.' A distressing fatality occurred at Mount Maunganui, tho Tauranga watering place, yesterday afternoon. Two young ladies and a young man who were bathing pulled out in a dinghy to Rabbit Island, a short distance from the beach. Hero they essayed to climb tho precipitous cliff, and Miss Winifred Halcombc, aged 17 years, fell a considerable distance to tho rocks below, and was killed. Tho cries of her companion, Miss Lysaght, were heard by a launch party fishing in tho vicinity, who rescued her by means of ropes. They also recovered Miss Halcombo’s body. Tho town of Halcombo was named after deceased's lato grandfather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 13
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117A FATAL FALL Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 13
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