MAN BELIEVED TO BE DROWNED
FLOOD WATERS WASH CAR INTO STREAM (United Press Association) THAMES, June 8. A mining foreman of New Guinea, Fredrick Woods, aged 59, was reported to be missing after a car in which he was a passenger was washed off the Coroglen ford on the Mercury BayThames road early yesterday afternoon. Following heavy rains overnight, a considerable amount of water was running over the ford and the car was washed off the concrete apron into the stream and was carried downstream until it was washed into a deep hole. The driver of the car was a man named Gruemfield, a veterinary surgeon, of Hamilton, and the passengers were 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 came to. The wife and daughter live in Hamilton. A search party is seeking Woods.
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Southland Times, Issue 23839, 9 June 1939, Page 8
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