RECENT DROWNING CASE
FISHING ACCIDENT. SWEPT OFF THE ROCKS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE. this day. Further details at" the Te Araroa drowning show that Frederick Treime, a returned soldier 'with four years' service, employed at the Hicks' Bay Freezing Works as a carpenter, want out with lour companions to fish on the rucks near Matakaoa Point on Sunday morning, and was missed by Ids companions. On their return home Tremie had not arrived, add on Monday morning over a hundred men from the works went out and searched the coasts line and /neighbouring l\il% hut (no trace was found except his fishing line, which was still in the water. The sea near tihe point is treacherous, anil Trentae had beon wanted "ot to venture too far out on the rocks. Deceased, who was unman-icd, was 40 years of age, and came irom Auckla.nd. His mother is thought to be living at Ade-, laide.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 6059, 4 November 1920, Page 3
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