UNKNOWN BATHER DROWNED
TRAGEDY ON THE ST. CLAIR BEACH RESCUERS VAINLY SEARCH WATER • By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Bathers on the St. Clair beach were alarmed to see a man who had been swimming beyond the outside line oi breakers about 6.30 this evening throw up his arms and ' disappear. Several members of the St. Clair Life-Saving Club immediately swam to the spot, but although they searched until a late hour no sign of the swimmer was found. Apparently no one saw him go into the water and his identity is as yet unknown, but he is supposed to have been dressed in a grey tweed coat, light grey trousers, a cream silk shirt and brown lace-up shoes which were found later in the surf club’s dressing shed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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129UNKNOWN BATHER DROWNED Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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