ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
■mu ■' 1 .nHgf^glbBOY DROWNED AT SUWfu-K. Per Press Association Christchurch, December 19Shortly after four o’clock yesterday afternoon, a youth named Leo Dobbs, residing at Salisbury Street, who was swimming off the pier at Sumner, was seen to disappear. The crowd of holiday-makers gave the alarm and a constable and members of the life boat crew went out in a dinghy with grapples and drags but could not get the body. The lad was bathing in a dangerous spot near the bar where there is a strong tide iip at low water.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 5
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93ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 5
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