DROWNED IN FLOOD
(P.A.) DARGAVILLE. August 17. A 14-year-old school girl found the body of James Boyle, single, aged 50, a farm hand, in a water hole alongside the main highway near Tangiteroria on Sunday morning. The road at this point on Thursday and Friday was covered by more than eight feet of flood water. Boyle was last seen alive by the same girl at 4.45 p.m. on Thursday about a mile from where the body was found. The Coroner’s verdict was accidental drowning. Boyle served with the Coldstream Guards in the last war. He has a brother at New Lynn. FOOTBALLER INJURED lan King, a member of the Timaru Boys’ High School football team, received a kick on the head in the football match yesterday and suffered concussion. He was admitted to the Southland Hospital. His condition last night was satisfactory.
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Southland Times, Issue 24825, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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142DROWNED IN FLOOD Southland Times, Issue 24825, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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