YOUNG MAN DROWNED AT ST CLAIR BEACH.
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 31. The victim of the drowning accident pt- St Clair last, -evening was Meredith Norman Nesbit, aged seventeen, employed in the operating room of the Telegraph Office. The body wa,s washed up on the second beach this morning. Nesbit, whose father is a teacher at Moray Place School, was to have bathed with a party, but as they did not appear, he went in alone, entering the water off the rocks at the baths, the most dangerous spot. Surf Club members swam to the spot immediately the alarm was given but saw nothing in a long search. It is supposed that when he sank he got caught in the kelp, which is plentiful there.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18376, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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