YOUTH DROWNED AT SUMNER.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Chrlstchureh, December 19. Shortly after 4. o'clock yesterday afternoon, a youth named Leo Dobbs, of Salisbury Street, was swimming off the pier at Sumner, when he was seen, to disappear. A. crowd of holidaymakers gave an alarm, and a constable and members of the life boat crew went out in a dinghy, with grapples and drags, but could not get the body. The lad was bathing in a dangerous spot near the to, wnere there is a siiong tide-rip at low water. .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2956, 20 December 1916, Page 5
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89YOUTH DROWNED AT SUMNER. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2956, 20 December 1916, Page 5
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