RIVER TRAGEDY
BODY NOT RECOVERED f Per Press Association ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 5. The body of a man was scon floating down the Waimakariri river at White’s Bridge between 5 and 6 o’clock yesterday evening by a contractor, Air H. Farrier, who followed it down the river bank for over a mile trying to recover it, but darkness set in. The body was that of a fairly big man. .It was dressed in a white singlet, cardigan jacket and dark trousers. Thc police arc searc v: ng the lower reaches of thc river and thc adjacent foreshores, as. thc body was probably carried out to sea by thc heavy flood in thc river last night.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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114RIVER TRAGEDY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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