THE UTIKU FATALITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10404, 18 July 1912, Page 4

THE UTIKU FATALITY.

Writing on ! Tuesday a Utikn correspondent gives the following farther particulars;“Through one , of the cables* on Gibb’s bridge, Utikn, parsing, and the bridge gapsizing, a team and loaded truck and two men, named Richard Hopwood and Ernest Pink, were thrown , intro the Hantapu river, a depth of 230 feet. The river is in high flood, and there is no chance of recovering the bodies until the water subsides. Parties were out all last nvght and again to-day under Constable McDonnell, of Talhape, scouring the banks of the Hantapu and the Rangitikei rivers, but so far the bodies have not bsen recovered.