FATAL FALL FROM CLIFF.
YOUNG LADY’S SAD DEATH. Tauranga, January 5. A distressing fatality occurred at Mount Maunganui, the Tauranga watering place, yesterday afternoon. Two young ladies and a young man were bathing and pulled out in a dinghy to Rabbit Island, a short distance from the beach. They essayed to climb a precipitous cliff, and one of them, Miss Winifred Halcombe, aged seventeen, fell a considerable distance to the rocks beloAv and Avas killed. The cries of her companion, Miss Lysaght, Avere heard by a launch party fishing in the vicinity, who rescued her by means of ropes. They also recovered Miss Halcombe’s body. She Avas a grand-daughter of the late Mr A. F. Halcombe, after Avhom the town of Halcombe was named.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2526, 6 January 1923, Page 3
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124FATAL FALL FROM CLIFF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2526, 6 January 1923, Page 3
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