BATHING FATALITY
NORDSTROM’S BODY FOUND
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GREYMOUTH, February 13.
Identified by Air J. Sw>nbui-n, by the 'bathing to be that of the Elias Nordstrom, a body was found by • lt\p youths on the IN or tlr Beach .yc»tcr•hfjiyt morning, about hail f a aide from the tip-head. The deceased who with Chnrlos A'cAunity, was drowned while surfing off th e Blaketowii Beach, had been hr. tl ® water since January 24, arid the body; was in an advanced stage of decomposition, several members, an arm aiid a leg, being missing. In ■ 'connect orwith this a peculiar fact is that the arm which was .washed- up."previously was a different on e som that which is missing from the body. Particularly heavy v " south-westerly seas have prevailed over the yveek-en,d, and it is '<••••«" to <1 \s fact, no doui t, that the body was given' up, after being immersed for nearly three weeks.
The inquest and 'funeral -w'lll be'.- he]; this • afternoon.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1933, Page 3
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