ACCIDENT AT FORD
MINING FOREMAN MISSING DAUGHTER NEARLY DROWNED (Per United Press Association) THAMES, June 8. A mining foreman of New Guinea, Frederick Woods, aged 59, was reported missing after a car in which he was a passenger was washed off Coroglen ford on the Mercury BayThames road early yesterday afternoon. Following the heavy rains of the night before, a considerable amount of water was running over the ford, and the car was washed off the concrete apron into the stream. It. was carried downstream until it was washed into a deep hole. The driver was a man named Gruemfield, a veterinary surgeon, of Hamilton, and the passengers Mrs V. Woods and Miss I. Woods, wife and daughter respectively of the missing man. When Miss Woods was recovered from the water artificial respiration was necessary before she recovered. The wife and daughter live at Hamilton. A search party, organised by Constable Rose, of Mercury Bay, is searching for Woods.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 13
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159ACCIDENT AT FORD Otago Daily Times, Issue 23830, 9 June 1939, Page 13
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