CONSTABLE DROWNS
-Fresa Aaiociation,)
Boat Capsizes on Shooting Trip
(By Telegraph -
AUCKLAND, Last Night. • A polic© constable stationed at Port Chalmers, who Was spending his leave at Mercer, was drowned when the boat in which he and a companion were proceeding to a duck shooting stand on the Whangamarino stream capsized this afternoon. The victim was Mr Gordon George Mednurst, aged 29, a married man. In company with Mr Alfred Parrish> of Northcote, Mr Medhurst set off in a sniall duck boat from. Mercer with the intention of visiting the ehooting location, which was situated on the stream about three miles from its mouth. However, before the stand was reached the boat overturned, the occupants being flung into the water. Mr Parrish struck out- for the bank, which he reached, after an arduous swim, in an- exhausted condirion, but Mr Medburst almost immediately disappeared. When equipment was obtained fr^, Pukekohe, dragging operations were comanenced by tbe police to-night, and Mr Medhurst' s body was recovered near tbe scene of the capsize at nine o'clock.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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