BUSINESS MAN MISSING
CAR CRASHES THROUGH BRIDGE J]AILING. . AUCKLAND, May 21. Police officers and others 'have been dragging the Tamaki River since daybreak if or the body of Mr Alexander Duthie, a Waiuku business man, who is supposed to have been drowned at the Tamaki bridge, south of Otahului, late last night. I Mr Duthic’s mofor-<kiv crashed into the iron railing of the bridge shortly after 11 o’clock, and was found oyerhanging the rivtir. An overcoat was |
picked up near the water’s edge, almost imme'diatcyl below the car. If the body is on the upper side of Ui - bridge, where Mr Duthie is supposed to have been drowned, the Otaluiliu police expected to find it this afternoon on a mangrove-covered flat some distance away.
Air Duthie left Waiuku last evening for Auckland to meet liis brother, wh > was due from Dunedin by the daylight limited. At the Otahubu bridge his oar carried away the light iron railing on the upstream side and Canute rest against an electric power pole w'th the ~ left-hand lYmit door open The driver had apparently been thrown out into the (water. Tatar:—The body was found next morning in the' - river.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1930, Page 7
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