MAN DROWNED
FATAL DELAY IN GIVING ALARM.
(Per United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, November 20. It is believed that a single man named Martin Gelden, aged 24 years, a labourer, was drowned in the harbour off Queen’s Wharf on Saturday evening. At-the time it was reported to a Harbour Board official that a man had fallen into the water and on a dinghy being lowered a cap, now identified as Gelden », was recovered. i A peculiar feature is that a man heard) a splash and saw a floating object in the water, but did not realise that a fatality ,was being enacted and did not give the alarm until the object had sunk. Gelden had no relatives in the Dominion.
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Southland Times, Issue 19102, 21 November 1923, Page 6
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119MAN DROWNED Southland Times, Issue 19102, 21 November 1923, Page 6
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