YOUNG MAN DROWNED
FATALITY AT HUKA FALLS WENT TO ASSIST HIS WIFE 1 Per Pre--* Association. ] ROTORUA, Dee. 28. A drowning fatality occurred in the Waikato River to-day between Huka Falls and the Aratiatia rapids, when a young man named Frederick Wilson, employed in the joinery department of the Fletcher Construction Company, Auckland, lost his life. Wilson was one of the members of a camping party and is understood to have been a poor swimmer. He was standing on the bank when he observed that his wife, who was, with several other members of lhe parly, bathing in the river, was in difficulty. He immediately plunged in to her help but was swept away by the current. Other members of the party threw a lifebelt, which was on the bank, to Mrs. Wilson and succeeded in dragging her ashore, but by that time Wilson had disappeared. Constable McNulty was summoned from Taupo and dragging operations were commenced, resulting in the discovery of Wilson's body late in the afternoon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 308, 29 December 1937, Page 8
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