YOUNG MAN DROWNED
TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES Samuel Barker, aged 21 years, eldest son of Mr and Mrs H. L. Barker, Alford Forest Road, Ashburton, was drowned in tragic circumstances while on a mountaineering excursion to the upper reaches of the Rangitata river above Erewhon station, on Friday. With companions, Messrs Bruce Knox, J. C. Pattie, and A. Kelly, all members of the Erewhon branch (Ashburton) of the Canterbury Mountaineering Club, he left Ashburton early in the morning to climb Cloudy Peak. While the party was crossing the Clyde river, a tributary of the Rangitata river, Barker was swept off his feet in the strong current which carried him out of reach of assistance, and he was drowned. The body was recovered, and brought to Ashburton by the young man’s father in the evening. Barker, who was well known in Ashburton, was educated at the Allenton School and Christ’s College. In addition to, mountaineering he was an enthusiastic tennis player and was on the committee of the Ashburton Lawn Tennis Club. The drowning took place exactly one year after that of Maxwell Townsend, another member of the Mountaineering Club, who was drowned at the Rakaia Gorge on Christmas Day last year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20611, 28 December 1936, Page 5
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199YOUNG MAN DROWNED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20611, 28 December 1936, Page 5
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