TRAGIC ENDING TO FISHING EXPEDITION.
NEW BLYMOUTH, Jan. 2. • -Belreved to have got into 'difficulties whife fisKiug from nn islet off Paritutu beach yesterduy afternoon, Mr. Perc'y iBatc'her, a midcll'e-aged man of 91 Ola-v-ert Ro'ad, New tPlymouth, is missing and ipresumed drowned. His 1-3-year-old son who aceompanied 'him was able to reaeh shore safelv.. Whet-her they fell or were struek by ■a breaker was not known to-night, but •a bystander reported seeing the two in the water anib added that one appeared to be clingi.ng to a--i'oek. .T'he :bo,y, who." !§;a >g0od:-swrimhref,»reached 'ihe beach ■and then found his father missing.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 January 1948, Page 5
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