FOUND DROWNED

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11471, 25 February 1918, Page 4

FOUND DROWNED

Per Press Association. < iiristciuirch Feb. 2-. The body of a man in an advanced stage of decomposition was washed up on the beach at Taylor’s Mistake near iHumner yesterday. At the inquest it was identified as that of Edmond Morrison Blake, a labourer, aged fifty, who had a hut in the neighbourhood, and ‘had been missing for more than a fortnight. A verdict of found drowned was returned, as there was no evidence to show how he got into the water.