YOUNG MAN DROWNED
TRAGEDY AT BATHING SHED By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, January 13. Stanley Oswald Topp, aged 26, farm manager of Amesbury Road, Saltwater Creek, was drowned in the Ashley River about 7.30 p.m. yesterday. Topp, with his three sisters and a brother and some friends, Intended bathing in a pool about 15 feet deep. His brother, Arthur Herbert Topp, went into the pool and got into difficulties. The rest of the party went to his assistance, but did not notice that Stanley Topp was also in difficulties. Arthur Topp, having been rescued by Miss Walshe, of Wellington and her brother, it was then found that Stanley Topp was missing. His body was later recovered and brought ashore.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 17
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118YOUNG MAN DROWNED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 17
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