SEQUEL TO A “DROWNING”

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1930, Page 11

SEQUEL TO A “DROWNING”

BIG WAVE CASTS' UP THE MAN IN LOCK-UP LITTLE THE WORSE. POLICE SERGEANT’S SURPRISE. Dy Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, Aug. 4. There wae an extraordinary sequel to yesterday’s supposed drowning tragedy at 10 this morning, when the supposedly drowned man telephoned PoliceSergeant Petersen from Tuamariua. He is now in the lock-up little the worse for his experience, except for bad bruises and a few minoi- cuts. Apparently after he had becn-.in the y ter for half an hour or so a huge wave washed him up on the beach, which was then in darkness. He wandered about for some time and, after bogging food at a house where nothing was known of the supposed tragedy, resumed his wanderings until he reached Tuamarina.

An earlier message reported that Wil« liam Henry Frances Parrish, a retired railway servant, was supposed to have committed suicide by -rushing Into the S(?clo

allies. In company with a mate, Mr. Gibson crawled to a convenient position where a British breech and British ammunition was cached. They then rushed and captured the gun, re-equipped it and turned it on the Germans. On returning to New Zealand Air; Gibson married Nellie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Humphrey, eleven years ago. He is survived by his widow and three young children; Since leaving the farm at Kaimiro, Air. Gibson has been employed as a printer in his father-in-law’s business in Stratford. He had many friends in New , Plymouth, Inglewood and Stratford. That he lost his life in an heroic- endeavour to assist another has made his loss the more keenly felt. • The Mayor of Stratford (Mr. P. Thomson) arranged for the body to be brought to Stratford, where the inquest and burial will take place.