BANK TELLER’S FATAL FALL.
Whakatane, September 3. Raymond Alexander McPliee, aged 21, a teller in the local Bank of Australasia, was drowned in the Waimana River on Saturday evening when returning by motor-car from a football match at Opotiki. L. Waugh, of Whakatane, urns driving the car, another occupant being Ronald Miller, of Hamilton. On arriving at the Gorge the party got out of the car, and Waugh adjusted the lights. When returning to the car McPhee slipped and fell over a bank into the river, a distance of 25 feet. An unavailing search w’as made for him. The body w’as recovered yesterday morning. At an inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3840, 4 September 1928, Page 2
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114BANK TELLER’S FATAL FALL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3840, 4 September 1928, Page 2
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