YOUTH DROWNED-
l-*H- r-ft - • -1-i ANOTHER CASE OF '-COULDN’T SWIM. ”
(Per Press Association.)’ Nelson, last night. A youth named Wilfred Hannan, aged sixteen, who was on the way from Greymouth to Wellington, and spending a day or two here, went to bathe in the Matai river this evening with others Being unable to swim he walked to the top end of a deep hole to oross the. river, but got out of his. depth and sank: He was not missed for a few minutes, when the boys searobed and brought him cut. Efforts at resuscitation were made for a loDg time, also by Drs Andrews aod Lucas, but unavailingly. An inquest will be held tomorrow. Deceased was the son of a wellknown solicitor.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1673, 14 February 1906, Page 2
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