BATHER DROWNED
TRAGEDY DURING RESCUE RECOVERY OF BODY (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The body of the young man who disappeared in the course of rescue operations on Christmas Day at Orewa Beach was discovered yesterday lying among the rocks on the south side of the mouth of Orewa River. He was: Jack Bradshaw Johnston, aged 23, single, Sandringham. The deceased was bathing on Christmas Day with his sister, _ Betty Johnston, and a young woman companion. The young women were using a rubber raft and were about waist-deep in water at the mouth of the river when they got out of their depth and were carried seawards. Some men went to their rescue and brought them into shallow water. Then it was noticed that Johnston was missing. It is believed that he was drowned in attempting to retrieve the rubber raft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20130, 27 December 1939, Page 10
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142BATHER DROWNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20130, 27 December 1939, Page 10
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