SURF TRAGEDY.
.♦_ COUPLE DROWNED. MAN'S BODY NOT FOUND. (PRESS ASSOCUTIO* TILXORAH.) NEW PLYMOUTH. January 20. Greenmeadows Beach, Opunake, was the scene of a surf tragedy this evciir ing, Mary Doreen Hammond, aged 26," and Thomas Pennington, 28, both of Mangatoki, being drowned. The girl called at a bach on the beach and asked for a rope and belt, as she was going to bo taught to swim. She was warned that the sea was dangerous, and was advised to swim in the river, but she said she. liked the sea. The couple were seen to go into the sea, but were presently missed. A message was sent to the Opunake Life-Saving Club, half a mile away, and in twenty minutes a team was on the spot. The body of the girl'was found floating on the surface, but the efforts of a doctor for half an hour failed to revive any sign of life. Men were patrolling the beach tonight, but at a late hour no trace of the man's body had been found;
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 11
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173SURF TRAGEDY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 11
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