DROWNING FATALITY.
♦- IN MANAW*ATU RIVER. At 7 o’clock on Saturday evening a local Maori, named Rupaha Kemp, single, aged 30 years, was drowned in the Manawatu River at Aprihama’s pah about five miles from Foxton and two from the Heads. The pah is situated on the southern bank of the Manawatu, and deceased lived there with other Natives. A “run” of whitebait was experienced late on Saturday afternoon, and Kemp with his cousin, Peter Rata and a Maori boy, were fishing for ’bait up till about 7 o’clock. When the flat-bottomed boat they had been using, not being moored but merely run inVo the bank, commenced to drift out into the stream. Deceased stripped off and swam after the boat. A strong in-coming spring tide was experienced which rapidly carried the boat over to the opposite side of the river and when Kemp was half way over he threw up his hands and disappeared, presumably attacked by cramp as he was a powerful swimmer. Constable Owen was communicated with and with Constable Bell dragged the river all day Sunday, and have kept the search up, but so far there has been no trace of Ihe body. It is expected that some difficulty will be encountered in grappling for the body as deceased had no cloib.es on at the time of the accident. Spring tides are making the search work very difficult as the current is very strong from the scene of the locality to the Heads. Kemp is a native of Wanganui River settlement, and was living with relatives here.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3852, 2 October 1928, Page 2
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260DROWNING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3852, 2 October 1928, Page 2
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