BODY IN RIVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4414, 13 February 1930, Page 2

BODY IN RIVER.

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In .-in unrecognisable.state, owing to its long immersion in the water, the decomposed body of a man was found in the Manawatu River last evening at SJItl near Lengburn. .M r. Albert Edward (iiilbransen, gardener, of KS Main Street West, Palmerston North, was on a trout: tishing expedition in the Manawatu River when he came upon the body at the point of the groyne .just above the railway bridge, near Longburn. He nolilied the police and a parly left about II o’clock lo recover the body, which was touml to be in a decomposed state and free of clothing except lor a leather belt, a woollen sock and I lie pair of braces. Alt hough ideal Miration has not vet been made, it is considered likely that the remains may be tliose of the late Roland llawkins Drummond, aged -Hi years, ot '( olIcge Terrace, Palmerston North, who was accidentally drowned on Jiilv 2d, l!)2i), when a boat capsized on the Manawatu River at the lower end of Albert Street. Deceased and a. fellow workman, Mr. Walter Husking, had been across the river in a boat to attend to hawsers swinging across t lie river and used to haul a bucket for gravel to and fro. Mr. Drummond reached up to catch hold of .cue of the ropes and in so doing upset the craft. Both men fell into the water, but managed to grasp the swinging cable. Mr. llosking found he could touch bottom and walked out, but Mr. Drummond, who was a good swimmer, set out ,after the boat which was being carried down-stream. He was kept in sight for 150 yards, but that was the hist seen of him.